Just got
back off quest, another amazing event where Daddy showed off. As I reflect on
the past 6 days I see a pattern that had developed in my quiet time down at the
Gate. Monday Holy Spirit took me to Hebrews 4:1
What a foolish thing it would be if we should
now fail in a similar fashion to enter his rest where we get to celebrate the
full consequences of our redemption. (Why waste another lap in the same
wilderness of unbelief!) So, the first day He was speaking
to me about entering into His rest and staying out of the Wilderness of
unbelief. Thinking about this statement, it just dawned on me it is very hard to
enter into his rest when you are walking in unbelief. I am
not saying you can’t enter into his rest but maybe you are not as intimate as
you could be.
Day 2. As I was sitting in my spot I felt Holy
Spirit was leading me to go back and read Hebrews 3 and sure enough it touches
on unbelief again.
3: 12 Make sure that
none of you tolerates the poison of unbelief in your hearts, allowing
callousness to distract and distance you from the living God. (Unbelief,
believing a lie about yourself and your salvation [Num 13:33, Josh 2:11];
unbelief exchanges the living God for a dead god of your own imagination. A
calloused heart is a mind dominated by the senses.)
So, I'm starting to see a pattern here, Holy Spirit what are you trying
to show me because frankly guys and gals I did not think I was walking in any
type of unbelief. Little did I know of what was coming.
Day 3 He
took me to Hebrews chapter 5 and specifically verse 8 and 9.
5:8 Acquainted with
sonship he was in the habit of 1hearing from above; what he heard 2distanced
him from the effect of what he had suffered.
(The word often
translated as obedience is the word, 1upoakuo, under the influence of hearing,
or hearing from above. “By” the things he suffered, 2apo, away from, distanced.
“Then I said, I read in your book what you wrote about me; so here I am, I have
come to fulfill your will.”
[Heb
10:7]) 5:9 By his perfect hearing he forever freed mankind to hear what he had
heard. (He now makes it possible for us to hear in such a way
that we may participate again in the full release of our original identity; the
logos finding voice in the incarnation in us.)
Now we're talking about unbelief, entering
into his rest and identity. I then
received a text from a friend of mine and it was really good and very powerful
and there was a line in it that said
“Holy
Spirit says to run to the offense... He's revealing something beautiful!!!”
So we're
talking rest, unbelief, identity and now walking in un-forgiveness. I'm thinking, all right where are we going
with this?
Later that
night someone brings up unbelief in the group and so I am looking for an old
blog that I wrote about unbelief but I could not find it in time to share it. I
did finally find it and when I read it, it was for me.
That morning
during staff meeting I confessed my unforgiveness towards two people in my
life. One I had been harboring
unforgiveness towards since 2005. Did
not see that coming and the other since about Feb of this year, absolutely did
not see that one coming. So, while I am
on the floor confessing that's when Holy Spirit revealed to me that the second
person that I needed to forgive.
In summary
I have been walking in un-forgiveness. I did realize that I had been mad for the
last 5 or 6 months but to be honest I didn't think I was walking in un-forgiveness but Holy Spirit
showed me I was. For the last 5 or 6 months or the last 12 years,
I have been reacting through the eyes of a hurt individual and I didn't even
know it. When does a deceived person know he's deceived? He doesn't until Holy
Spirit reveals it to him. So, while I'm on the floor confessing I get a vision
of washing this person's feet. So that person is coming to my house today and
we're going to talk and I am going to confess. I believe all of this has come
about because I chose to enter into his rest and to listen. The truth is if you are walking as a son in
your true identity, you're not going to walk in un-forgiveness, you’re going to
know who you are. And when people say things and do hurtful things, you have to
choose not to believe the lie about yourself and you have to walk as a son. You must choose life,
Todd White says, “I
am so free from me I am free from you!”
That is who I strive to be.
I leave you with this one question.
What is the lie that you are
believing about yourself that is keeping you from walking as a Son or Daughter
of the King? Ask Holy Spirit right now
2 Corinthians 4:4 The
survival and self-improvement programs of the 1religious systems of this world veil
the minds of the unbelievers; exploiting their ignorance about their true
origin and their redeemed innocence. The veil of unbelief obstructs a person’s view and keeps them
from seeing what the light of the gospel so clearly reveals: the 2glory of God is the image and likeness of our Maker
redeemed in human form; this is what the gospel of Christ is all about. (The god of this 1aion, age, refers
to the religious systems and governing structures of this world. The unbelief
that neutralized Israel in the wilderness was the lie that they believed about
themselves; “We are grasshoppers, and the ‘enemy’ is a giant beyond any
proportion!” [Num 13:33, Josh 2:11, Heb 4:6] “They failed to possess the
promise due to unbelief.” The blueprint 2doxa, glory of God, is what Adam lost
on humanity’s behalf. [See Eph 4:18]).
