I just wanted to share some thoughts on the “how” versus the “what”.
We have had the “what” down pretty good. In other words, we have had our revelations and catching up experiences in God and have seen “the what” of our inheritance in Christ. This is our mountain top experiences in the spirit. The visions, the dreams, the glories, the ecstasy, the joy, the peace…..the heavens, in other words.
But it is not in the heavens that you learn “the how” of our walk in God. It is in the valley where you learn how to dress yourself in your heavens.
It is when the police come knocking on your door to tell you that your only daughter and grandchild have just been killed in a car crash. This scenario just happened here a couple of weeks ago to friends of our family here. They buried this young mother with her baby in her arms.
How do you take your great revelations of the spirit and bring it into this experience?
When your only daughter comes to you to tell you that she is a lesbian and goes on to live the gay lifestyle and your hopes and dreams for her and for her ever producing some lovely grandchildren for you to love are dashed Are you able to now take your mountain top glory and translate it into unconditional love losing all your judgment for her and all others of like mind?
When you are the single mother of three young children trying to survive after your husband runs off with someone else leaving you alone with all the responsibility and you find you have more month left than money and you can either feed your kids or else pay the electric bill and you opt for feeding the little ones and your electric is turned off. Do you light a few candles, keep the faith and keep moving on?
When your child is taken with a terminal disease and you ask everyone to pray with you for their healing but they are not raised up but you see others who are experiencing miracles for their family members, how do you bring the glory of your catching up experience into this loss without becoming bitter or disappointed in God or life?
When you and your mate are in the throes of a heated disagreement about something, and you are not exactly jumping up and down and shouting ‘glory’ and speaking in tongues, but perhaps you feel like jumping up and down and shouting something else all together , are you able to remember who you really are in Christ and be exercised by that knowledge instead of being knocked out consciously in the moment?
There are a hundred more illustrations that could be drawn by any one of us to define some of these experiences and I know there are many who have already passed through many of these life experiences, so this is not about suggesting that this is not already accomplished in some but to make a point.
This is where the fishes, the birds and the beasts of our earth are tamed or subdued that the Genesis 1 mandate gives us.
This is where we are given the privilege of bringing heaven into earth – our individual world or earth first of all, which actually also makes a deposit of life into the collective consciousness of the all.
This to me is what Jesus meant when he said, “He that overcomes, I will grant to sit beside me on my throne, as I Myself overcame and sat down beside My Father on His throne.” Rev.3
Even Paul tried to get this point across to all – that even with all the revelations and catching up into the 3rd heaven that he had experienced he still had to deal with what it meant to fight the beasts at Ephesus, to be stoned and left for dead, beaten and thrown in prison, rejected and thought the refuse of the earth and to still learn how to be an overcomer and content in God in all these things.
God doesn’t take you over when you are going through these things and force himself upon you – but you with the tools of his glory that you have been given have to build a house for God to dwell in here. When we were a child, we might have gotten everything done for us, but as full grown god men we have to learn to actualize our truth.
This to me is the “how” of the “what”.
This is also what I believe some are trying to share with us about being mature in our walk not just in our revelations. We actually become it, we don’t just ‘have’ it. We are Joy, we are Peace, we are Longsuffering, we are Gentleness, we are Kindness. And this earthly valley is our dressing room for putting on these lovely garments.
And with these gloriously outfitted Lovers, God wills to mirror to creation their own beauty when they behold themselves in us.
Well, I guess I will have to say that I desire to be a “howsie” not just a “nowsie”…
Heart to heart,
Karen
We have had the “what” down pretty good. In other words, we have had our revelations and catching up experiences in God and have seen “the what” of our inheritance in Christ. This is our mountain top experiences in the spirit. The visions, the dreams, the glories, the ecstasy, the joy, the peace…..the heavens, in other words.
But it is not in the heavens that you learn “the how” of our walk in God. It is in the valley where you learn how to dress yourself in your heavens.
It is when the police come knocking on your door to tell you that your only daughter and grandchild have just been killed in a car crash. This scenario just happened here a couple of weeks ago to friends of our family here. They buried this young mother with her baby in her arms.
How do you take your great revelations of the spirit and bring it into this experience?
When your only daughter comes to you to tell you that she is a lesbian and goes on to live the gay lifestyle and your hopes and dreams for her and for her ever producing some lovely grandchildren for you to love are dashed Are you able to now take your mountain top glory and translate it into unconditional love losing all your judgment for her and all others of like mind?
When you are the single mother of three young children trying to survive after your husband runs off with someone else leaving you alone with all the responsibility and you find you have more month left than money and you can either feed your kids or else pay the electric bill and you opt for feeding the little ones and your electric is turned off. Do you light a few candles, keep the faith and keep moving on?
When your child is taken with a terminal disease and you ask everyone to pray with you for their healing but they are not raised up but you see others who are experiencing miracles for their family members, how do you bring the glory of your catching up experience into this loss without becoming bitter or disappointed in God or life?
When you and your mate are in the throes of a heated disagreement about something, and you are not exactly jumping up and down and shouting ‘glory’ and speaking in tongues, but perhaps you feel like jumping up and down and shouting something else all together , are you able to remember who you really are in Christ and be exercised by that knowledge instead of being knocked out consciously in the moment?
There are a hundred more illustrations that could be drawn by any one of us to define some of these experiences and I know there are many who have already passed through many of these life experiences, so this is not about suggesting that this is not already accomplished in some but to make a point.
This is where the fishes, the birds and the beasts of our earth are tamed or subdued that the Genesis 1 mandate gives us.
This is where we are given the privilege of bringing heaven into earth – our individual world or earth first of all, which actually also makes a deposit of life into the collective consciousness of the all.
This to me is what Jesus meant when he said, “He that overcomes, I will grant to sit beside me on my throne, as I Myself overcame and sat down beside My Father on His throne.” Rev.3
Even Paul tried to get this point across to all – that even with all the revelations and catching up into the 3rd heaven that he had experienced he still had to deal with what it meant to fight the beasts at Ephesus, to be stoned and left for dead, beaten and thrown in prison, rejected and thought the refuse of the earth and to still learn how to be an overcomer and content in God in all these things.
God doesn’t take you over when you are going through these things and force himself upon you – but you with the tools of his glory that you have been given have to build a house for God to dwell in here. When we were a child, we might have gotten everything done for us, but as full grown god men we have to learn to actualize our truth.
This to me is the “how” of the “what”.
This is also what I believe some are trying to share with us about being mature in our walk not just in our revelations. We actually become it, we don’t just ‘have’ it. We are Joy, we are Peace, we are Longsuffering, we are Gentleness, we are Kindness. And this earthly valley is our dressing room for putting on these lovely garments.
And with these gloriously outfitted Lovers, God wills to mirror to creation their own beauty when they behold themselves in us.
Well, I guess I will have to say that I desire to be a “howsie” not just a “nowsie”…
Heart to heart,
Karen
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