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June 2008 - Summer Fire
Allow me to divert from our teaching on the spirit man this month, and use the opportunity of speaking to you briefly about something that is burning in my heart right now: FIRE!!!!
Very few of God’s people today know anything about the Fire of God, and no wonder—an outpouring of Holy Ghost Fire has not been seen for several generations. I recall our 1995 Camp Meeting in Atlanta, when the resident Pastor stood up halfway through the week, and said “When I was 10 years old, during the great healing revival, I saw an outpouring of God’s Fire in a tent meeting. I witnessed something which shocked me, and left an indelible impression on my life. I never thought it was possible to see that again, until now, nearly 40 years later.” In 1995, whilst the revival of refreshing was at it’s peak, I nevertheless became dissatisfied with the move of God, because, although filled to capacity with the Spirit of God, people were not really being changed by that outpouring. In crying out to God about the situation, the Lord responded to me from the story of Elijah, when he was on Mount Carmel ready to pray down Gods “Fire.”
Elijah commanded the people to fill the water pots to capacity, and pour them out over the sacrifice upon the altar, three times; until the sacrifice, the altar itself, and the trenches around the altar were all filled and saturated with water. This incident, the Lord said to me, signifies the church of today. [1995]
We were in the midst of a great outpouring of refreshing water, we were drinking of the Spirit, over and over, just like the outpouring of water upon Elijah’s sacrifice altar. Then the Lord had this question for me. “How much change, had taken place on Mount Carmel after the water saturated the sacrifice altar?” And I said, “Nothing!” The Lord said. “Correct. The outpouring of Water on the sacrifice did not produce the change or the transformation needed, the water only served the purpose of preparing the sacrifice for burning.” Again, the water only served for the purpose of PREPARING THE SACRIFICE FOR BURNING. There is only one difference now, yet a very significant one. WE are the new and living sacrifice on the altar. [Rom 12:1] The outpouring of refreshing during the 90’s was the Lord pouring water over the sacrifice to prepare it for the coming outpouring of God’s fire!!!
Subsequently, the Lord emphasized to me, what an immediate and dramatic change had taken place, the very moment the fire fell. Instantly, all of Israel was transformed. The fear of God fell on all God’s people, and they hit the ground as one man praising and worshipping God. Also, at that moment, all of the prophets of Baal, were defeated. Their god could not produce fire, but the God of Elijah, poured down fire from heaven, which fire consumed the sacrifice, and the altar, and licked up all the water in the trenches around the altar.
Boldness and strength came upon Israel immediately. They sprang into action, grabbed the prophets of Baal, and killed them. Victory, blessing, deliverance, judgment, the fear of the Lord and intense worship, were all immediate phenomena of the outpouring of God’s Fire upon Israel.
The Lord proceeded to point out to me then, that soon, His fire will fall from heaven like it did on Mount Carmel. Following the outpouring of refreshing, a new Visitation of God will arrive in great power. This new era is the season of Fire. Once again, like in the days of Elijah, the fire of God will get the job done. The church will be transformed, rise to victory, and take possession of the earth. The enemy will be left powerless and destroyed, and the church will manifest Gods purpose.
At this time [Jan 1995] the Lord also promised that for a short season, we will witness an outpouring of His Fire in our meetings as a witness to what is to come later. Over the next several years God astounded us with periodic outpourings of His fire. In particular we witnessed outpourings of fire in four different cities, Charleston, SC [1995]; Atlanta, GA [1995]; Jacksonville, NC [1996]; and then lo and behold, six years later, very surprisingly, there was yet one more outpouring of fire to come in the pre-season; that being Orangeburg, SC [2002]
We know tons of people who were present during these periodic outpourings of fire. Scores of people were even hit by God’s fire themselves. It is hard to imagine or even describe, the awesomeness, the energy, and the intensity of God’s Fire. I recall that at our 1996 Camp Meeting in Huntsville, AL Anita herself was hit by the Fire of God. I’ve never seen my wife act the way she did then!!
At the beginning of this year [2008] the Holy Spirit witnessed to us that the coming of God’s Fire is very near. This was confirmed to us in an awesome way at the last night of the “Fire Campmeeting” held at The River at Tampa Bay with Dr. Rodney Howard-Browne in January. As Pastor Rodney was ministering and the Holy Ghost was moving during the service, suddenly, without warning, God’s Fire was poured out upon our seventeen year old daughter Michelle as she sat between Anita and I in the church. We have never seen our daughter react this way before, and could not have imagined this ourselves in a thousand years. Momentarily, I realized that something was happening to her, as tears were streaming down her face. The next moment, the “Fire of God” hit her. She opened her throat and screamed at the top of her voice, and we were simply in awe of God. Of course it disrupted the service, immediately the ushers were told to bring her to the front, and held her up. Brother Rodney grabbed her hand, and began to say “Oh my, I feel the Fire of God!” He briefly touched her head, and she screamed violently and hit the floor again. For the next hour she kept on shaking and rolling around the floor, accompanied with the occasional scream, and the quivering of her lips. Toward the end of the evening, she tried to get up & was placed on a chair on the front row. Her right hand was shaking uncontrollably and her lips were quivering still. She began to tell the church that the Lord had touched her mouth, her hands and her feet and cleansed them with His Fire and in future she would use them for the Lord, and His Work. One more time, Br. Rodney walked with her across the floor, holding her hand and said “This is what happened to me in 1979, when the Fire of God fell on me!”
We have shown the DVD to some friends who have visited our home since, and they were shocked when they witnessed the power of God’s Fire upon our daughter. But so were we, shocked and surprised at first, when the Fire of God began to fall on people in our meetings back in 1995. So powerful was the manifestation of God’s Fire then, that people would literally run up and down the aisles, shaking, screaming, huffing and puffing. Some would be nailed to the floor, and break out in a sweat. Others would just lay there and scream. I soon learned, during those days, that one person being hit by the Fire of God, is equivalent to a whole church being hit with the refreshing. It’s so awesome!
Everything God does is done with a purpose!!! God’s Fire has it’s purpose. In spite of all the countless outpourings of God’s Spirit throughout the last one hundred years, the church is yet far removed from becoming the Glorious Church. But God will have a Glorious Church, the fire of God will see to that!!!
The work of God’s Fire, is two fold. The First work of the Fire is destructive! God’s Fire will burn through us and simply destroy and annihilate everything that is of the flesh, self or sinful. God’s Fire, will bring about a work of total purification of the mind, will, intellect, emotions and also the whole physical body. This work is a continual process, we will simply continue to burn with Fire until we are totally cleansed; until all selfish desires, personal ways, and practices of the natural man are all burned up, and completely gone. What remains, will be, a pure and sanctified vessel, perfect before God!
The second work of the Fire is constructive! Jesus promised that the Holy Spirit will Baptize us with Fire. This fire, is an anointing, an impartation of boldness, strength, tenacity, fearlessness, and wisdom. The constructive Fire of God will also equip us with gifts of the Spirit, and Gifts of Ministry. Like the Prophet of Old, the Fire of God, will settle in us and become truly Fire in our Bones. Thus, the Fire will enable us to minister as the oracles of God, and enable us to fulfill our destinies in this final hour of the church.
Subsequently, God’s Fire will also be like a ring of fire around us, a protection against anything that we may face. Gods Fire will literally shield us from the work of the enemy in these last days. And such, we will become unstoppable. Being cleansed by the Fire, gifted in the Fire, and protected with the Fire, we will become like super people in this final hour.
I sense in my spirit that the outpouring of God’s Fire on a national and universal level, could begin even this summer, and to confirm this inward witness, we find the leadership and the Prophets in the Body of Christ altogether in agreement, saying the same thing.
I would not be faithful to God, if I do not share these things with you and urge you to ask the Holy Spirit to prepare you for the coming of His Fire. Those of you who back in the ‘90’s were in those Fire meetings with us, would agree with me, that the Fire of God is a wonderful but fearful thing. Even so, those of you who were hit by the Fire of God, back then, are changed forever, although the Fire did not remain upon you indefinitely. I remember the Glory of God’s Fire, indeed, it was so awesome, that many were afraid. Others were shocked, and yet others could not quite discern whether it was God or even the devil. Yet for us, we are reminded on a daily basis of the awesomeness of the brief outpourings of God’s Fire, which we saw back in the ’90’s, and in 2002, and then suddenly, in 2008 as it suddenly appeared upon our precious daughter Michelle.
The Fire of God will also set everything in order in our lives. God’s fire will release ministries that have been held back up until now, it will break down barriers, destroy hindrances, stop confusion, end all of the lies of the devil and expose everything for what it is. The Fire of God will inevitably bring judgment to the house of God. Beware!!
The Fire of God will enable us to step into an authority, a power and boldness like never before. Things which had been denied us will become available. Money and opportunities which were kept from us will suddenly come to us at our command. Indeed the Fire of God, will reshape the landscape of our lives, and set a new precedent. Life as we’ve known it as Christians will be replaced by a new lifestyle of Fire. Remember, one minute Israel was standing on Mount Carmel, full of doubt and unbelief, the next moment, it looked like a mega oven of Fire fell from the sky and ate up the sacrifice. One moment before, Israel believed nothing, the next moment, they were on their faces crying out to God. A moment before, the prophets of Baal were still mocking, confident that Elijah would also fail to produce God’s Fire, but the next moment a horrible fear penetrated their bones, their worst nightmare had come true. Their day was done, their judgment had come.
So shall it be in these days ahead of you and I—prepare yourself. Do so with fear and joy!! For the Fire of God is awesome. As it was in the days of Elijah, so shall it be in these days before the coming of the Lord. Yet, through fire, the Glorious church shall be raised up. For we shall become like the Word of God, purified by the Fire, seven times.
As we came to America in 1988 running with the Holy Ghost and the outpouring of Refreshing, so, shall we launch out in this hour running with the message of God’s Fire, praying for the coming fire, and calling down the fire upon God’s people.
Again, prepare yourselves, for the days of the greatness of the Lord and the visitation of His Fire is at hand. Unanimously, Gods Prophets are calling unto Heaven for the Fire to Fall today. We are the sacrifice that shall be burned and become a burnt offering a sweet smelling savor in the nostrils of Almighty God. God’s Fire is your future, even now, it is at the door!
But the Glory and the grace of God will then escort us into our ultimate destinies to the Glory of His Name!!!
The Day’s of the Fire and Glory of God are here…. Are you ready for it!
November 2008 - Steadfastness
The word steadfastness is one of those “no nonsense” words in our vocabulary. It means “dedication, commitment, determination persistence and resoluteness” To remain steadfast in a situation requires total dedication, and a senseless determination, coupled with a disciplined mind. Steadfastness is toughness, the kind of stuff Paul talks about when he tells us to endure hardship like a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
Steadfastness is much needed during tough times. We often say “ Tough times never last but tough people do” Times at the present do require a little toughness and persistence. Sadly so, outside influences determine people’s faith, dictating what they believe; indeed circumstances show how much steadfastness people can muster up in tough times.
It is easy to have your mind bombarded by 24 hour cable news, hammering out in great detail all the things which are wrong with the economy, from stocks to the housing market and everything in-between. Disturbing news reports continue to harass our minds regarding the Presidential Election also. Regular new polls seem to dash our hopes almost daily, putting us on an emotional roller coaster, up one day, then down the next. Rising unemployment figures cause people to fear for their future, and that of their children. On the consumer side of things, gas prices have gone through the roof , food prices have escalated dangerously, and the dollar has been under some tremendous pressure on the International markets. Politically speaking, America ‘s standing internationally is not the best, and the war in Iraq is still dragging on. Osama Bin Laden is still hiding somewhere in Pakistan, and the war in Afghanistan is not getting better either.
Internally we can spend a week belly aching about all that is wrong with America morally. Pessimists will go to no limits telling you why we are doomed as a society, lamenting the perception that our leadership role in the world is also become redundant.
The church of course is supposed to have the answers for every situation in our world and provide the way out of it through powerful spiritual leadership. But the church has never been as unspiritual as she is today. The church is rendered powerless through her blatant disregard of the Holy Spirit. Secularism and humanism today rule the church. A recent report shows that only 8% of Pentecostal Christians still speak in tongues. Many Pentecostal churches previously on fire, have abandoned their Spirit filled beliefs and practices, and have gone seeker sensitive. Many Pastors will almost stop at nothing compromising the power of God for a larger congregation and “the almighty dollar”
It is common knowledge that the world system is based on fear. The President has a bad cough in the White house and the DOW drops 500 points. Some idiot predicts on T.V. that the markets will collapse, and everyone sells off all their stocks. Daily, people are presented with great business opportunities to further their careers, yet fear would not allow them to take advantage of such lucrative opportunities. People fear for their kids every time they leave the house. Some people are too scared to come home at night in case their spouse has run off with someone else.
Advertisement s on Television bombard people with fear—from home security systems to medical drugs. Commercials frequently talk about death and dying, instead of living. Television entertainment for decades have focused their entire storyline on violence, murder and armed robberies. The message is simple—Life is a threat, feel threatened, and beware, death is at the door all the time.
Many products offered in our economy come with a sales pitch based on fear. The cell phone became a viable commodity firstly as a means of protection before its business value was realized. 911 emergency was now placed in everybody's hands never to leave us. SUV’S became instantly popular as a family vehicle because of it’s extra protection and added safety it offers it’s occupants. It helped to minimize the fear for auto accidents. In spite of the horrendous escalation in fuel prices, many are still clinging to the large oversized SUV’s today, out of fear!!
Fear stifles and usually causes recessions in the economy. At the glimpse of the first less favorable economic report from the federal reserve, people lock their monies away, too afraid to even buy a hamburger.
Subsequently, the economy grinds to a halt. Movie stars and so called celebrities possess multiple millions of dollars, yet some are too afraid to spend any money on themselves or their families.
The more money they make the more they live in fear that they will lose it all. Many lie awake at night fretting over their millions, worrying themselves to death—literally; where after the grand kids simply squander it all.
Our world is so sick, and fear is at the heart of most of it. Fear started way back in the garden. It was the product of the first sin committed. Immediately after sinning against God, Adam and Eve quickly hid themselves away from Gods presence, out of fear. Fear has ruled mankind ever since.
Where do you stand today, and what is your outlook for tomorrow? How do all the present developments today effect you personally?
It all boils down to two things: What you know and What you believe.
If you personally know God and walk with God you will be fine. If you know who you are as a child of God and a joint heir with Jesus Christ, you will turn out good. If you know by revelation the times and the seasons of God, and subsequently realize that we have come to the end of the church era with all it’s promises of victory, you will prosper regardless. If you know and understand that the hour of destiny and purpose is come, and that this last day generation of the church will rise up and fulfill a great destiny you will be excited and full of faith.
If you know deep inside your heart that you have been born for something great and that your days on earth will be greater than that of thousands of people before you , you will be confidently looking to the future. If you know the importance of pleasing God through your life, and refuse to compromise your faith and your Christian walk, God will honor and bless you and you will be envied by many.
If you personally know the Holy Spirit, and devote your life to finding friendship with Him, your life will soar high like an eagle, high above all the problems of earth. IF YOU KNOW ,THAT YOU KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW, THEN YOU KNOW WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW.
Secondly, if you believe some paramount things you will be fine also. If you believe that God is God of all, King of all the universe and that He rules over all, you will have peace in the midst of any storm. If you believe that God has a unchangeable plan of Glory and goodness for our generation, you will be able to trust in a positive outcome for all things.
If you further believe that God has prepared an glorious outcome for your life, a truly wonderful destiny, you will be blessed in the midst of economic turmoil. If you believe that Gods plan for your life means that He will bless you and prosper you greatly in these last days, you will be excited about the future.
If you would consider how God has favored America in recent centuries, and believe that God will again favor America and use her as the catalyst of world revival and the global outpouring of His Spirit you will be filled with great expectancy.
IF YOU BELIEVE THESE THINGS, YOU WILL BELIEVE WHAT YOU BELIEVE, AND WHAT YOU BELIEVE WILL COME TO PASS.
If you know what you know, and believe what you believe, you will be interested ONLY in what God is saying. Forget compromising preachers, doom and gloom prophets, flip flopping cable news reporters, skeptical Newspaper Editors, jittery economic forecasters, doubting Thomas's and negative neighbors. FORGET THEM !!
I am listening to God the Holy Spirit, because greater is He that is in me than anything that is in the world. I am listening also to God’s precious preachers, powerful prophets, and supersized saints, with gigantic faith. That's all!!!!
Are we still interested in what God is saying? God says “ My council shall stand throughout all Ages”. He needs no Councilor. God says that He never changes, and that His plans also will endure forever. So is His Word. Everything will pass away and wax old, but His Word will endure throughout all Ages.
To us God says “ I have called you with a holy calling” The Lord has prepared a glorious outcome for us in these last days of the church era. He has promised us the wealth of the wicked, and has ordained for us to take dominion of all things and rule and reign for Him until He comes to occupy for Himself.
We are His Kings and Governors. We will reap His harvest of souls from among the Nations, and we will rule the Nations with the rod of His righteousness. At the time of His glorious return, we will present to Him the earth in righteousness and truth!!!!!
Now the $64,000 question remains. Are we ready to become STEAFAST? Are we ready to walk in true STEADFASTNESS in spite of everything and in the midst of all adversity?
Are we the people of dedication, commitment, determination, persistence and resoluteness? Are we the people who will rise and shine, or a people who will fade away in the face of adversity? Are we the rulers of earth for this final hour, or is God having to look for another? Are we the remnant of champions or should we expect another?
Recently, the Lord challenged me with the story of the 10 virgins in Matthew chapter 25. The story is about the coming of the Lord and the 10 virgins of purity [God’s people, the redeemed] Whilst waiting for the coming of the Lord, 5 of the 10 virgins ran out of oil [oil representing the Holy Spirit’s anointing and fullness in our hearts] The Lord pointed out another application of the story of the 10 virgins to me. It is this. The coming of the Lord here is the coming glory and great outpouring of God for the final harvest of the church. As we are approaching the time of the release of the fire and glory on earth, many of God’s people have lost their hunger for God [that being the oil, the fervency of the Spirit.] Due to their lack of hunger, they will not enter into the glory of the coming great revival, because they ran out of the oil required to enter in, that being the oil of spiritual hunger.
I know a new breed of young champions will soon emerge amongst us, just a bunch of young “WHIPPER SNAPPERS” These youngsters will become the forerunners of the outpouring of fire around America. They will be the front line of supernatural warriors of the last day Army of the prophet Joel. These young warriors will literary come from nowhere, and turn America back to God. I say, “Lord have mercy on me, count me in, put me among these young firebrands.”
Destiny is now calling. A few years ago the Lord told us that the economy would be shaken, but only for the purpose of shaking all the wealth loose, so that it may be transferred to the righteous. Recently the Lord told us to watch the gas price. He told Anita in the Summer when the price for regular gas was $3.85 per gallon, that it will fall to $2 per gallon by Christmas. Last week it dropped by 60 cents per gallon. In South Texas [Oct 22] it is now $2.02.
In June this year whilst driving in the car, the Lord told me supernaturally that He has broken off the threat of Islam against America. “My Fire is taking over America!!”, God said, “Not Islam” He proceeded. “ I have personally rebuked the spirit of Islam over America” .“Now it is My fire and My glory for America.” [It was so powerful, I thought the power of God was going to knock me out of the car.] 2009 will be the greatest year of our lives ever. These are the days of Elijah, Elisha, and many others; multiplied. Wealth will replace famine in a day, and revival godlessness. God’s fire will fall in a day, and a Nation of righteousness will be born in a day. Get readyget ready!! And above all: Remain STEADFAST till it comes, and till He comes! Keep the oil flowing, keep the fires burning, cry out to God. He will give you a fresh Holy Spirit infusion. Arise and shine for your light is come, and the Glory of the Lord is risen upon you!!!
January 2009 - Journey into God's Heart
I would like to call the journey into the deep revelations of God, “The journey into the Heart of God.”
At the turn of the last century the Lord told me something very profound and prophetic. He said this, “From Pentecost in Jerusalem until 2000 A.D. it was great for anyone to come to know the Holy Spirit personally. After 2000 AD. It will become critical and crucial to be in close fellowship with the Holy Spirit”. Now in the new millennium, Gods people have to be established in two things namely;
• We must be established in the life of faith,
• We must be established In the life of a Holy Spirit friendship; both are now crucial, faith and friendship.
When it comes to faith, our walk of faith needs to step up to higher levels of revelation, level after level, until we reach the highest level of revelation during these last days of the church on earth.
There are basically four levels of the revelations of God. They are:
1. Information
2. Revelation
3. Supreme Revelation
4. Spirit Creations of the Heart.
For centuries, the church has lacked the simple knowledge of God, called information. During the dark ages, the Bible was hidden from people. The life of Martin Luther became a testimony of how much God wanted to place the knowledge of His Word into the hands of His people. But for almost four hundred years, the knowledge of God’s Word did not go much further than that. After the return of the outpouring of the Spirit in the early nineteen hundreds, little by little, the Word of God began to find it’s way into the minds of God’s people first, and then later on also into their hearts. Yet, even to this day, the majority of the church is satisfied with the mere gathering of knowledge only. Most of the church world functions only on information or head knowledge of God’s Word. Head knowledge has been developed into a science called “Theology” which is man’s vain attempt to study and know God with our minds. It is nothing more than brain assessments of God. It has become a subject of science like any other subject offered at colleges and Universities. The findings of theology are manmade creeds of doctrine, interpreting the Spirit Word of God intellectually. There is no life, truth, revelation or power in theology. It is at best, only a gathering of the information of the scripture. Man’s interpretation thereof however, results in a science of error.
Theology is no doubt the main reason why the church has always seemed ignorant of the things of God, consistently lagging behind in the escalation of the truth of God. In a nutshell, 2000 years of theology or religious doctrines in the church, has produced great ignorance and confusion, resulting in a state of “not knowing” or “ignorance” No relationship with the H. Spirit equals “not knowing” No revelation through the H. Spirit equals “not knowing.” No hunger for the truth in the hearts of God’s people produces a state of “not seeking” which equals “ not knowing” Not only is mere knowledge not enough, no, knowledge alone is extremely dangerous and destructive spiritually, because God is not the science of Bible knowledge, He is the eternal Spirit of divine life.
Revelation knowledge is what the Word calls “experiential knowledge” of God. It is experienced in two ways, within and without. In Ephesians 3:19 [Amp] Paul urges us to come to know the Lord through experiencing Him personally, as opposed to mere knowledge without experience [head knowledge] The verse continues to say that after experiencing God personally and practically, we will be filled throughout all our being with all the fullness of God, subsequently, we will obtain the richest measure of His divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled with God Himself!!!
In 2 Peter 1:3 Peter tells us that God has bestowed upon us all things that pertain unto life and godliness. How did God bestow all things upon us.? Through the knowledge of God. This Word knowledge in the Greek is the word “Epignosis,” meaning “Experiential knowledge” as opposed to intellectual knowledge [head knowledge.] The revelation of God must firstly be received and experienced within the heart of the born again spirit of the believer. In order to partake of the revelation of God’s Word, we must renounce theology or the perusal of God’s Word with our intellect. We must give up all our previously gathered head knowledge of God, and ask the Holy Spirit to remove all our religious teachings, doctrines, believes and even religious demons, to which we may have fallen victim to in the religious environment of the church. We must be delivered of all; the slate must be wiped clean. God refuses to mix theology with revelation, every trace of theology must be extinguished completely, BEFORE Gods Spirit will be willing to start us out on a new journey into the heart of God, a journey of the discovery of unimaginable revelation. Having been cleansed and delivered, we are ready to start receiving revelation into our hearts.
At this point we must appoint God’s Spirit as the one and only Teacher of our hearts, the only instructor of God’s Word. He, God the Holy Spirit who lives inside our own spirit, will now begin to teach us the revelations of God INSIDE OUR SPIRIT MAN. We must fill ourselves up with the pure Word of God by continually reading and meditating on Gods Word. This will result in two things, namely, both our hearts and our minds will become filled with the living Word of God. In our minds God’s Word serves the purpose of helping to form Godly thoughts, Godly character, and Godly behavior in our every day natural lives. God’s Word in our minds is not intended for scrutiny, analysis, or intellectual processing. If we revert back to doing this, the mind takes over again, and leads us back into theology. All the processing and analysis of God’s Word takes place inside our hearts. In order to receive revelation of the Word in our hearts, we need to get into Gods Presence through spirit anointed worship, prayer and personal fellowship with the Holy Spirit in Person. Then as our hearts become more sensitive to Gods Spirit, we ask Him to teach us revelation, and then wait quietly in His presence as He begins to impart revelation within our hearts.
Our minds are therefore ministered to from both ends, from the outside as we carefully read and receive the Word into our minds, and from our spirits within, since after revelation is imparted in our spirits by Gods Spirit, it begins to arise into our minds, where it begins to influence our thinking. Then, in the process of time, the inward revelations of the heart will even come to dominate our minds with the abundance of revelation inside us. As such our spirit man then begins to gain the ascendancy over our mind; the spirit man begins to rule over the natural man.
The revealed Word in our hearts has now become the possession of our human spirit. It has become personal revelation, almost as if you wrote those words in Gods Word yourself. Revelation fully explains Gods Word, and also emphatically confirms it beyond any doubt. Revelation is absolute, unchangeable, unmistakable, and infallible. It is not subject to debate or any alternative viewpoint, interpretation, or concept. It is pure and absolute revelation received from the Holy Spirit, who imparted such in a perfect fashion within us, as it becomes ingrained within the very fiber of the human heart.
The Revelation Word within us will produce exactly what it is. Consequently, revelation inside us will also give the Holy Spirit more control over our lives progressively, as He gains more influence over our human spirit. Through revelation knowledge, our spirits grow, because they feed on the
true revelation received. Spiritual growth produces greater spiritual maturity within the spirit man, which results in greater spiritual power, enabling the human spirit greater command of the natural man and subsequent control over our minds. The more our spirits grow in the Word, the more we produce the character of God, living the true life of the spirit, by producing the fruit of the Spirit out of our own spirit, as inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Here is the profound lifestyle of the revelation filled child of God in a nutshell. The Holy Spirit controls our spirit, then our own spirit, full of revelation life and power, influences and controls our minds, causing our flesh to exhibit the life of God in every day conduct instead of the sinful nature and works of the flesh. Continual godly influence flows from the Holy Spirit into our spirit, from our spirit into our mind, and from our minds into all the activities of the flesh. The more revelation we receive, and the stronger our personal fellowship with the Holy Spirit becomes, the more this godly process is accelerated and intensified through us with no end in sight!!!This is how Godly revelation is accumulated on the inside, where after it begins to manifest on the outside, in our daily lives. When we possess revelation in our spirits, and the life of God flows through our live daily, we also gain additional power flowing and manifesting through our ministries, in addition to the anointing and calling of ministry received from the Holy Spirit.
An amazing moment of glory is about to arrive in the church, a time when God will move His church into the life of revelation, and into the lifestyle of living the spirit life of revelation out of our spirits every day. The church will then move on from head knowledge to heart revelation, from information to the experiencing of inspired revelation, walking with God’s Spirit, and exhibiting the life of God out of our own spirit man. This is the divine lifestyle of revelation. Hallelujah!!!
But God still has more for us in 2009. He wants to elevate our spirit life to yet a new level, a brand new one, the level of SUPREME REVELATION. This level of revelation is not a different kind of revelation in itself, but an ever increasing expansion, growth and enlargement of the revelation which we have already inside us. However, the realm of supreme revelation knows no bounds, and no limitations. Supreme revelation does not reach the point of exhaustion, it is like the sky with no ceiling, like the ever expanding universe with no border around it. Supreme revelation takes us to a new level of revelation, a new awareness of divine truth, a place where faith becomes totally perfected, totally complete. Supreme revelation enables us to be transported into the depth of Gods heart, seeing and knowing the operation and power of the God kind of faith and revelation. Now we make the journey into the previously unknown precious secret places of God’s precious heart.
Here we experience life the way God does, we also begin to know and operate faith with the same absolute conviction with which God does, of course the fullness of God’s faith is always superior to ours, but we experience the same kind of faith and the same kind of operation of great revelation. Supreme revelation produces in us mustard seed faith, which grows unlimitedly into a gigantic tree of faith. Supreme revelation produces the God kind of faith, which enables us to speak to the mountain, and it shall be removed. It is like Jesus and the Centurion with the sick servant, when it was not necessary for Jesus to go and physically pray for the person; No!! He just simply SPOKE THE WORD ONLY!!!! The Centurion understood perfectly well the operation and superior power of supreme revelation.!!!
Paul speaks of the same supreme revelation in 2 Cor. 4:13 when he says that we have the same spirit of faith just as God, therefore just as God speaks things from nowhere into existence, we do just the same thing also!!! Five verses later Paul continues in the same vein. We do not at all focus, depend on, or rely on natural knowledge, we completely look into the spirit world, the Spirit Word of God, and the power of God. There, with the eye of faith, we are able to see revelation trutthe things which we see in the spirit to come over and manifest in the natural realm, just like God has been doing it for Ages. Here is the difference between the three levels of revelation. Information aspires to believing things, hoping it will happen. Revelation says it is mine, I know it, I will press in and posses it. Supreme revelation says I see it as clearly as God sees it, now I simply tell it to obey me and it will do so, and manifest right away.
How will we identify the existence of supreme revelation in our hearts? How will we know when we have progressed from revelation to supreme revelation? It happens this way: Faith is simply elevated from a firm believe of conviction, to a place of absolute knowingness. Supreme revelation is not believing, it is a complete knowing, an all knowingness which surpasses believing and faith. You simply know that you know that you know!! This is Gods wonderland of knowing, a place of no objections or restrictions. Supreme revelation is a higher level of the spiritual awareness of spiritual realities and truth. Here our spiritual awareness is so heightened, that the natural realities disappear from sight. They don't disappear from existence, they are still there, and everyone still sees them, but they disappear from our view as the heightened perception of the spiritual realities overshadows the view and existence of the natural realities. This is the place of knowing, and knowing only the spiritual realities of God.[While we look not at the
things which are seen, [natural realities] but[ we look] at the things which are not seen[ spiritual realities] [2 Cor 4:18] This is a place where ONLY spiritual things are seen. This is not a pretence to appear very spiritual, it is a real place of life where only the things of the spirit world are visible to us, the natural have simply dissipated into oblivion, removed from our sight. The spiritual reality simply replaces the natural reality, completely. It is no longer a matter of having to have faith against the circumstances, no, the circumstances are no longer seen, they are just totally replaced by the spiritual reality. Like Jesus, for instance, who never noticed the cross, He simply looked at the finished work of redemption beyond it. So was Paul. He reached the place where he no longer noticed the severe tribulation and persecution that came against him. No!! He called them light afflictions, he only saw the finish line; the Glory of God at the end of his race.
This reminds me also of John G. Lake. During his time of ministry in South Africa in 1908, a severe outbreak of the bubonic plague occurred, killing thousands of people. Lake told doctors to put the bubonic virus in the palm of his hand under a microscope, since it would not harm him. Reluctantly, the doctors nevertheless obliged. Instead of being infected immediately by the virus, and to the doctors’ amazement, the highly lethal virus died immediately at the point of contact. Lake knew that he knew!!!
Smith Wigglesworth is another example of someone who walked in supreme revelation. During his lifetime, he raised 23 people from the dead, including his own wife. He simply shoved her corpse up against the wall, and commanded her to walk. She returned to her body promptly and walked. No wonder Wigglesworth said “I am a thousand times bigger on the inside than on the outside.”
John Alexander Dowie walked in the realm of supreme revelation to the point of total recklessness. He once ripped an malignant growth off a woman’s face in the presence of ten doctors and ten preachers. Doctors said that she would die within minutes if that would happen. But immediately fresh skin appeared where the growth was on her face.
The journey into Gods heart has been diverted by Satan for almost 2000 years. The detour has included religion, tradition, man’s doctrine, humanism, and theology in abundance. But since the reformation, the church began to journey back into information. Now 400 odd years later God is ready to move the church into the lifestyle of Godly revelation.
I believe that in 2009 the Spirit of God wishes to start moving Gods remnant of super hungry people into the new Frontier of the spirit, the realm of supreme revelation. This is the realm of knowingness, of operating in the revelation and faith of God, just like God does Himself. This is the never-never land for the church, a place where only a few pioneers of the church had gone before. This is the place of great spiritual progression, where God’s Spirit will now lead us to, especially if we are hungry and ready. It is the place of kingship and dominion, the place where we will cause the winds to seize, where we will call down the rain, change the economy, circumstances and conditions on our planet.
Now we will call down Gods fire, rebuke the elements, and call the miraculous things of God into existence. We will operate like God, working side by side with Him. We will begin to truly reign in this life as kings, transforming the world through the power of supreme revelation and the God kind of faith. This is the new realm for Gods last day Army, the Pioneers, Explorers, Kings and Priests.
Get ready, this is our future, and it is now upon us, even this hour!
