TESTIFYING TIME

​ TESTIFYING TIME
YIELDING TO THE SPIRIT OF GOD
 
Sometimes we find that we go through things for learning lessons, teaching tools, or sometimes we can find ourselves in jacked up situations because of a failure to yield to the Holy Spirit.
Soon after going forth into ministry the Lord had poured upon me in a way that I couldn’t have fathomed. It was more than a zeal. There was a desperation within my self to share that same experience or encounter. Gifted with the healing, the Lord instructed me to go forth and that I would lay hands on the sick and that they would recover. It was something that couldn’t be explained. I would write letters and the words of the Lord would heal. I would send cards and I would pray for people and they’d recover, even people that were on life support. The Lord would even heal and give extensions of life to those that weren’t “saved” simply because of a prayer of faith. Stay with me. I’m going somewhere. The thing is, I wanted people to be healed and delivered the way that I had been. I wanted them to feel what I felt. I wanted to show the compassion the way Jesus showed the compassion me. He was the very reason why I moved, why I had my being. I can humbly say that I was after the heart of God. Sometimes you can get to a place where you are so saturated with the presence of God that you don’t know where you end and He begins. You’re completely one with the Lord. The flesh is dead. His Spirit is in unity with you. You lose yourself in Jesus. Then He really starts to do a work. Where he says a “greater works” will you do. The thing is, you can have the greatest heart toward Him with the purest of intentions and wind up a wounded warrior on the battlefield for Christ simply because of failure to yield.
We must maintain the spiritual oneness given by the Holy Spirit to be sure we operate in the spiritual timing of the Most High. A prime account of this is Moses when as much as he spoke face to face with the Lord and he was instructed to speak to the rock (see Numbers 20:7) yet in His emotional passion he smote the rock instead and interfering with God receiving the complete glory in that particular test. In another account was King David ushering in the ark of God into the city. The spirit of God was saturating the people so that they lifted up praise unto the Lord. And yet there was a new cart and the Spirit of God began to fall and Uzzah put his fleshly hand and took hold of it and therefore died because of a failure to yield to the Spirit of God. So that example was made in the midst of praise and worship.
So, with these things being mentioned let us be sure that with all of our getting we get an understanding of what the will of God is in each situation. Many times, the Lord showed me favor in my gift because I was learning to do His will. He winked at my ignorance because the work was done in love and as the Word speaks, love covers a multitude of sins.
Many have been gifted by the Lord through His Spirit to do a work. It is important to hold dear the fact that as much as we love the work of the Lord, and we love to bless others, we must love Jesus more and we must be after His heart to know His will for each situation we are involved in. Jesus doesn’t just operate on emotion but with righteous judgment. Some things tat may seem small on the surface have much more meaning than we realize in the spiritual realm. These things are all tied to the fear of the Lord. What’s a healing or a deliverance if it’s something to just behold? If it’s not for a stretch of faith or to be conducive to a manifestation of a relationship with Jesus? We interfere with God’s glory that He said He would absolutely not give to another! This is the time to recognize the seriousness of the hour. Hold dear to the accounts of the Holy prophets that He has sent to demonstrate what to do and what not to do. You are armed and dangerous. The enemy knows it. Use the armor properly according to the will and purpose of Christ. Put the enemy to flight and remember that His sheep hear His voice.
 
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