Life of a believer without god inside vs outside
Jesus says carry your cross. Why…. eventually you will end up naked and your flesh will die… that's the goal… many carry.. Few die.
Mental picture of Jesus vs who he is.
Last time John seen Jesus he referred to himself as the beloved. (John 13:23) And he laid on his chest. Next time he don't even recognize him… He falls on his face… He learned what god really looked like.. All of us put a natural limitation on Jesus. We can draw him and touch him.. But what happens when he shows you who he really is… (Ps 24:3-6) If you ascend the hill of the Lord you see him for who he is and all your weakness happens…. When is the last time you realized God is bigger than you think. (Is 55 8-9) Better, more perfect… more impossible… Then, He gives you his hand and picks you up and dust you off and tells you come up here and let me show you what I am doing and what you can take part in… Some been hurt by other believers, or churches. Your confidence is been shaken in Him, because someone who followed him fell short of the Glory… That's not who you are…... Never be limited to what you see naturally.. Take the opportunity to respond to what you see heavenly.
He calls you beloved.. In a way only you and Him can know its between you and him… Peter, He called Simon, and Jesus always had to restore his role and relationship in Christ. But often He is called Simon Peter, I believe God purposely did this. It’s a picture of our present war… We struggle with what God says about us while the natural man inside us fight’s it. Simon Peter always went back to what he seen…. (Rom 8:7, Gal 5:17, Romans 7:15-20)
John went into the ministry.. Followed Jesus to the cross. (John 19:25) Next thing he is ministering. John shows up in revelation because of persecution of things no one seen.. For some of you you're experiencing trouble because of unseen things. Whether bad or good.. But he was facing the wrong way despite. Which way are you facing when you experience persecution. (1 Peter 3:17)
I saw Revelation in a new way. I am always seeking how to get people into the presence of the Lord. I felt this revelation could be useful for the Body.
Rev 1: 9-16 John suffering for the kingdom, patient, and enduring, in jail because of the word. On the Lord's day being in the spirit. He heard a voice from behind him.. (Even in all that we can be facing the wrong way. I turned around and saw. First thing he seen was the churches, then someone among the church. Then what he was wearing. Then his voice detailed. Then saw his hand with a sword. Then finally his face. When I finally saw him I fell dead.
Rev 1: 17-18 When we finally see Him. He touches us. And says. Do not be afraid. When John understood Jesus naturally. He never fell at his feet he was alongside. But when he got a glimpse of him with the Holy spirit in Him…Revelation Happened.
Rev 1: 19-20 Jesus tells him and first things first deal with my church concerning what you see. Jesus spoke to where John was at in his life. An apostle to the churches. Rev 2-3 Then wrote the 7 letters. Many times in the presence of the Lord.. He reveals to us what we are supposed to do in the Kingdom.
Rev 4:1 After that He looked after that He looked and saw a door open before him. Open in Heaven. Now that you are done with what is down there. Come up here. Seeing the Door positions you to be in the right place to hear his voice. At once he was in the spirit. And before him was a throne. With someone sitting on it. First, He describes the One. Then he describes what was around it. The elders then what was in there hands. And on their head. Then the noise from the throne. The the seven lamps then in front of the throne a sea of glass. Then the creatures around it. Then he sees the ministry happening. Creatures holy, holy, holy, then the ministry of the elders, saying worthy, worthy, worthy.
It's like a staircase. Going from the bottom, not seeing clear, to the top, seeing clear, then the bottom, knowing what to do after you seen what you just seen.
When John was doing everything right, he was facing the wrong direction. Sometimes we can get turned in the wrong direction. Then the Lord was bringing him to a place where he could be effective again. (being on Patmos was a life sentence).
John didn't see Jesus in his glory right away, he seen in the order described. From the outside in. as I described earlier. Jesus went from amongst the lampstands to the blazing fire where John fell dead, in realization of what he seen. Jesus will temporarily step into what you are doing to give you a chance to catch His gaze.. So that He can show you where He is going.
After Jesus was seen perfectly, then Jesus touches him. Then after the touch he got a detailed plan on the ministry. At this point John's understanding of a life sentence on an island is not the end of his life. Somehow he is getting off that island to minister this stuff. He gets the blueprint for the churches.
Then another opportunity came. And he was facing in the right direction this time. In Rev 4, and he seen the Open door in front of him. The Voice spoke to him as a trumpet. More clearly then a rumbling like before, He comes up here and immediately he was in the Spirit. The first thing He seen was the GOD OF GLORY. Immediately describing each intimate feature. Then he seen the things around the throne. Then the churches, then the ministry happening.
The only way we got the Book of Revelation with the intro from John that blows us away Rev 1-1:8. Is that God rescued Him from the wrong direction. He Seen God.
I believe this is where we are at in the Spirit.
There is no where i can go that your love can't find me.. There is no where i can go where you can't see me.
When is the last time we found Him. Where we said oh,, there you are. HE is always always with us. And pouring into us…..
Where He sets it all right. Where he sets the score. Where he lifts us up and sets our heart in the right place… He is here.
Oh Lord continue to send us your ones.. That need you.. That you have called. And the few who respond.
Beware of the season we are in.. Make the adjustment. Be, let go of the do, and just Be. Be with Me He Says.
It is not a gifted few who can talk to him. That is what some want us to think. He is individually invested in each one.
Many times we ask where are you Lord. Then He looks at us. And says come up here……. May we continue to have intimate and deep encounters in You Lord. WE want to know your heart.
John 15: 7"If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8"My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples
1 Rev because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. 10I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like the sound of a trumpet, 1
Heb 4: again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”
After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this."
At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it.
Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.
And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.
