Reading Psalm 20 this morning, while also an online prayer meeting, I suddenly had a depth of insight I’d never really had… The power of the Word of GOD astounded me.
I’ll try to explain my experience.
Psalm 20:
May the Lord answer you in the day of trouble; May the name of the God of Jacob defend you;
May He send you help from the sanctuary, And strengthen you out of Zion;
May He remember all your offerings, And accept your burnt sacrifice. Selah
May He grant you according to your heart’s desire, And fulfill all your purpose.
We will rejoice in your salvation, And in the name of our God we will set up our banners! May the Lord fulfill all your petitions.
Now I know that the Lord saves His anointed; He will answer him from His holy heaven With the saving strength of His right hand.
Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will remember the name of the Lord our God.
They have bowed down and fallen; But we have risen and stand upright.
Save, Lord! May the King answer us when we call.
A nudge
I felt a nudge to pay attention; the LORD wanted me to be aware of Him. I paused my reading, I turned my attention to Him. I paused, I pivoted —
And then the print impressed upon me the value of the words.
“He will answer from from His holy heaven.” He will answer.
Speak this into being
Jesus said, by faith we’d move mountains. But still, they are intact.
I think as I read this Psalm silently, whist another was praying aloud, I felt a gentle nudge that awakened my attention to what there in this psalm and had I not taken heed, I’d have missed it…
The person praying was speaking of world governments and circumstances of tension at the present time; as I was reading, “May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble” I recognised the power of the Word of GOD over our prayers. We just need to speak them, apply them, believe them.
“Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will remember the name of the Lord our GOD…” and the prayer is complete.
I understood that the LORD’s very name towers in strength compared to absolutely every armament ever conceived.
“The word of the LORD is living and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword…” (Hebrews 4:12)
Isn’t it though.
And so
To apply GOD’s word faithfully, acts as a seal to our prayers. We ask, we trust, we apply His word, just as Jesus did in the desert against Satan’s effort to entice Him away from the LORD. He told the fig tree it would no longer bear fruit, and it dried up.
And to apply GOD’s word faithfully, acts as a summons to the devil to bow down before Him, to back off… to obey.
So when we pray
We pray to GOD “Thy will be done…” and it will be done. Believe and be empowered to the level with which the LORD has equipped you.
And always, ask for more faith! It is a gift of Holy Spirit. It can’t be whipped up. But it can be poured out. Let us all ask for more, and expect, and await its coming.
I think we are in End Times. So, we need to be ready for a very large number of people waking up to the reality of Jesus for the first time, and a lot of other people asking questions. In other words, it’s Harvest Time! And so we need to be ready for the Harvest.
In Matthew 9:37, Jesus is recorded as saying, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the labourers are few.” What did He mean?
The Harvest is the gathering of souls who will go to heaven (or hell), if they have come to accept Jesus, becoming born again (or have not). (John 3:3)
And what comes with the Harvest?
Signs and wonders are a part of the Harvest. Jesus operated in the miraculous and many came to faith through those miracles. He said greater things would we do (John 14:12) and so, don’t we need to get on with it? Now!?
Signs and wonders get people’s attention
And what is needed for signs and wonders to be manifested? People to be anointed, full of faith, and ready to work in signs and wonders.
And who are the people? You and me! Believers whom GOD wants to use to draw in those who do not yet know Him.
Jesus operated in signs and wonders while He walked the earth. He said we will too (John 14:12)
Now, we are Jesus’ representatives. We are the anointed. So, we need to be ready to operate in signs and wonders. And what do we need? Faith!!
Faith to operate in signs and wonders
Hebrews 11 tells us that by faith Able, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses…. All these acted from faith. And so can we. So must we!
In order to work in signs and wonders, in order to heal the sick and deliver the bound, we need to believe the LORD can, the LORD will do it. We need Faith to heal and to deliver.
Mark 11:24 says,
“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
‘Seeing is believing’. So as we allow ourselves to hope, we can imagine in our minds and in our hearts that the LORD will heal as we humbly ask Him. As we Believe it, hope for it, and pray, and it can come to pass by the grace of GOD and the power of Holy Spirit.
If it means you need a renewing of your mind (Romans 12:2), in order to operate this way, then ask the LORD to renew your mind. He will! He did it for me; He can do it for you.
“Faith is GOD’s currency for the impossible!” (Tobi Arayomi) Hold on to that!
Let’s get to it!
Let’s pray! Let’s surrender to Him. Let’s ready ourselves, and believe what GOD can do.
Then, let’s get ready to move mountains as the LORD leads. As people cross our paths who need His help, let’s be bold and be ready. We are in the time of the biggest harvest of all time.
I believe it is time to shift!
It is time to step out in faith when we are prompted. It isn’t the time to hold back but to pray, get close to GOD, and see what He will do in and through you and me.
A Revelation about Spiritual Maturity, Physical Reality and Miracles: Spiritual maturity means facing challenges without contest. It means fighting the good fight and finishing the race. Today, I believe it also means God enabling us to see into the future and into Heaven at a deeper and broader level than ever before. We are in a new age. Old things have passed. New things have begun. Let’s begin to allow God to use us to shift them.
Ready: God is doing a new thing in His people and we need to be prepared to be ‘blown away’ by His power and presence at work in us. We need to prepare ourselves for a paradigm shift.
Set: We live in a material world. Reality is tangible. But I believe our awareness of reality needs to expand – at least for the spirit-filled believer in Jesus Christ, hungry to mature and see God’s purpose fulfilled in his life. This is a time for a paradigm shift.
What is a paradigm? A paradigm is a way of thinking, a way of perceiving our reality based today on our previous experience and the assumptions we’ve developed from those previous experiences.
For example: We base our thinking on certain assumptions, which in turn leads us to make certain decisions. For example, the thought “I’ll eat lunch at noon today because I’ll be hungry at noon today” is based on our previous experiences which established our eating habits . We usually feel hungry at noon and so we assume we will feel hungry today. Because of a pattern in our previous experience, we anticipate or expect we’ll be hungry at noon today.
A paradigm shift is a shift in our thinking, our expectations and assumptions. The example above is trivial. But it leads us somewhere… As we walk out our faith and grow in maturity, God will use us when are prepared. Studying the Word of God, learning to give and receive love and forgiveness, surrendering every moment of our day to the Holy Spirit – all of these are signs of our growing spiritual maturity. Our character is being built. But there is more to this faith-walk. What about the miracles?
For what are we being prepared, if not for more of God’s glory on earth as it is in Heaven?
Friends, I want God to move mountains for the Glory of God and as a witness to the world! Jesus said with faith we could. How about you?
I believe there is something new on the horizon for the disciples of God who wish to fulfill their purpose in Christ. What it is and how it effects our walk with God has to do with our concept of physical reality. There is more to be learned about our physical world and it’s boundaries. In order to move in God’s miracles we need faith. To move beyond our assumptions and limitations and into an understanding of different dimensions, we will be enabled to move in God’s miracles.
Today, humankind’s suspicions about other dimensions and ways of perceiving our world is growing. But we must stay God-centered. Isn’t it time to fully explore the supernatural and otherworldly nature of His universe? How do we move mountains? How do we do greater things than we saw Jesus do?
I believe it has to do with our understanding of reality. Perhaps it is through a Godly-supernatural transcendence of reality that the limitations of our physical world are overcome, and the sort of miracles that Jesus accessed we also will be able to do. Individuals in our secular world today assume what we touch is real. In fact, some people believe “if we don’t see it or can’t touch it, it’s not real.” I’d like to propose a paradigm shift.
What is most real, Believer, is that which we cannot see. Until we live and breathe this truth, we are limited in our faith and action.
Consider scriptures such as the following: “The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for the pulling down strongholds.” (2 Corinthians 10:4) Clearly the literal/physical meaning of weapons is being replaced by the concept of spiritual weapons. I suggest that this transcendence into the spiritual realm can be discovered elsewhere in scripture to help us deepen our understanding of, commitment to, and maturity in Christ.
“But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fitforthekingdomof God.”(Luke 9:52)
When we read scripture from the 1st Century church, do we filter everything based on our current understanding? Let’s consider Jesus’ words carefully, and put it in the in light of a paradigm shift. Let’s go back to what Jesus and the hearers knew.
First, we need to be fit for the kingdom of God. How do we know if we’re fit? For one thing, we look forward (not backward). For another, we relinquish the plow (and the provision by self-effort that it symbolizes).
I have nothing but an inner sense of revelation; I believe the plow also represents the confines of physical reality.
“Now the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and one soul; neither did anyone say that any of the things he possessed was his own, but they hadallthingsincommon.” (Acts 4:32) Jesus encourages us to let our possessions – or family members or significant persons or things – go. As we become unfettered in our mind and will, God may move us into a different dimension where the tangible cannot hold or limit us. But in order for that to happen, perhaps, first we have to let go.
John transcended our reality when he saw the Revelations. Philip was translated in order to meet the Ethiopian Eunuch. Jesus walked on water; he moved through walls when doors were locked, he was translated to be with Moses and Elijah on a mountain. Might it be that, through faith he overcame physical reality so that he was able to accomplish these miracles?
Understanding how his faith worked does not change the fact that Jesus worked miracles. But perhaps in order for us to do ‘greater things’ for the Kingdom, we need to alter our perception of reality so that we can overcome physical – and mental – limitations, and allow God to increase our faith.
Jesus promised ‘greater things would we do.’ The Church seeks to operate in the healing miracles and the food multiplications and to ‘move mountains, but relatively few of us are doing these things. I’m wondering if a key to this is a paradigm shift to our understanding of reality. Can we begin to operate more effectively in the realm of God’s supernatural power when we have an improved understanding of God’s different dimension(s)? Is it through this revelation that we can defy the natural world and it’s natural laws – which are subject to God’s laws? Are we being called to overcome the physical world in a Godly way?
The 1st Century believers may well have done this; perhaps we need to do this in order to bring the fullness to earth as it is in Heaven, the fulfillment of what Jesus promised for his Church, and bring it all of the glory to God.
Steps to enabling a paradigm shift from a tangible focus to the supernatural: 1. In God’s timing, willingly surrender your worldly goods in principle (I’m suggesting you don’t literally give away everything, but through Holy Spirit’s conviction upon you – if it should come to you – surrender all of your worldly goods to God). This way you break free of any hold they may have over you. 2. Pray and ask God to bring us all into a deeper experience of His love and glory. 3. Seek the will of God: Does He want you to move in the supernatural? Ask Him to take you there in the Spirit. 4. Go (physically, literally) to a place local to you where a miracle is needed. Ask God to show you Truth and how to bring it closer to whomever you are with: in hospital, in the street, or in your home or workplace. Be open to whether the miracle will be measurable in the physical realm or internal. 5. Pray for a miracle.
Go: We can’t manufacture miracles. We can’t even manufacture faith. But we can ask God for both, and we can grow in our understanding of how He can make these as accessible to us in a greater way, as He did for the 1st Century Church.
