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Posted: 07/10/2008 at 6:39pm
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AFTER YOUR SHOWER – PART 2.
I have said in several recent articles, that Father God has the dream of a family of sons and daughters who have submitted themselves to being developed into what was originally intended when God said – “Let us make a man just like we are”.
We all know the Genesis story.
But what we don’t KNOW – that is, having a comprehensive understanding producing a life changing and life style changing awareness - is that the family Father God set out to achieve in Genesis 1 a group of human people who are the same standard of being as God Himself is – and that’s where he wants you to be. Yes – that’s what they said.
God Almighty has made an arrangement designed to get people back to that standard of being. That is – human people made to be just the same as God is. That was the intention in Eden.
That arrangement, of course, is the Christian Church. I have talked about this in several recent articles, but the notion is so outlandish that I am pretty sure that what I said has either gone clear over your heads, or is considered to be the mindless religious doctrinal rantings of some old galah from the other end of the planet.
Never-the-less – again I say unto thee – the point of the existence of the Christian Church is to turn out men and women – sons and daughters of Almighty God – who have submitted themselves to Holy Spirit and to each other and have consequently been matured and developed into becoming of the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ and the completeness found in him.
That person is the duplicate of Jesus whom Father from the beginning intended his sons and daughters to be – and that is what Church exists to produce.
This could be a good time and place to check out where you fit into all this.
In the two Twenty Fold Ministry articles, I outlined how it works – that the mentors –sometimes erroneously referred to as “The Five Fold Ministry” – with capitals – who are gifts God has placed in the Church for the purpose of perfecting and equipping the “saints” – who are ordinary men and women – that they – the ordinary men and women - should do the work of ministering towards building up CHRIST’S BODY – which is the genuine Christian Church. By working together with God and with each other – ministering to each other – growing day by day – that standard will be reached. That is the standard you are to duplicate..
The bottom line to all this is that we are of no use to either God or man unless we have developed into this standard of character and being. This is the starting point.
Then – having got there – and following Paul’s advice about earnestly desiring the best gifts – you move collectively and individually until God is able to release his abilities into you – and you are able to do the kind of thing the people in that raunchy church at Corinth were able to do.
Look – we are supposed to be a supernatural outfit. We are a union of being with God Almighty – Eternal Creator. Jesus said we would receive dynamis power when Holy Spirit come upon us. But we are so poverty stricken that when just one man demonstrates a very elementary display of this power – folk come running from all over the world to see it. It’s supposed to be normal. Jesus told us we would do greater things than he did. In the Western world – it’s not happening. We are told that as the consequence of his power that is at work within us, he is able to do superabundantly, far over and above all we would dare ask or think, infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes or dreams. Aw cum on!!!
I’m not going to hammer pastors again. I’ve said enough on that subject – but for as long as men – or women – presume to control the operation of Holy Spirit in and on and through people in a church setting – that is not church – it is not ecclesia – it is not the BODY OF CHRIST.
Jesus – the HEAD OF THE BODY is stuck for want of arms and legs and lips – and a whole heap more. The BODY OF CHRIST as being the entity composed of Christ and the collective multitude of functional component parts – DOES NOT EXIST.
Which brings us back to our local church – and it is at that level, that things must be returned to the way God set it up, so that what God intends to achieve through the church, may be achieved.
I could wax lyrical about what the church is supposed to be, but that’s not the point here. Just to say, that a natural – actually, that should be supernatural - normal real local church is an entity composed of men and women who have allowed Holy Spirit to develop them into becoming of the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ – and the completeness found in him – duplicates of Jesus.
The brutal fact is – church – and the people in it – are utterly useless until that level of development is completed in all our churches - yea, verily and forsooth - all over the world. How do you expect to be able to tackle the mighty forces of iniquity that have swamped our nations when you can’t even imagine changing your life-style.
OK – Plan B.
God has a growing number of men and women who have already come out of the religion industry and are seeking to reach the place where God intends them to be. It is these who are going to attain to becoming duplicates of Jesus. It is these who have their ears and hearts and minds open for what Holy Spirit is saying and are ready to obey. It is these few people whom God will use to call down the forces of Heaven into the satanic situations our nations are facing.
Remember Gideon’s army? God does not need the fearful ones. They can all go home. But those remaining few – using a tactic as weird as marching around a wall for seven days was weird – and with a few trumpets and clay pots and lamps – the enemy destroyed itself. Gideon’s soldiers didn’t even have to fight. All they had to do was just collect the loot. Are you listening?
It was just a handful of teenage kids and a couple of coal miners in their early twenties whom Holy Spirit used to launch the Welsh Revival. He doesn’t need DDs.
What God Almighty needs is a handful of men and women who will take him seriously – and risk losing your friends – even family – and set your heart - with whomever God has associated you with – on connecting with God and don’t stop until you have made that connection.
That “connection” is a missing element. People guess and think and hope and come up with notions. But when God actually speaks to you – you will know and so will the folk with you.
We must come to that place where we receive power when Holy Spirit comes upon us.
We must come to that place where we speak to a government department and say “Be gone – your destructive operation has ended”.
These are the men and women who are going to see the Glory of God covering your nations as the waters cover the sea.
At this time, in the Western world – God is NOT getting from us what he is looking for from us – and ultimately it is we who will be the losers.
Look – all you people reading this – this is God’s world and we are here for him – and to grow into that identification with him - and to work with him to bring about his intentions on this planet. That is what you are here for. You are NOT here to mess around with religious uselessness, nor to pile up stuff in big heaps – or even little heaps - that ultimately of not much consequence.
We are in a desperately critical situation with incredibly powerful wicked forces whose fixed and determined intention is to get you. You are supposed to be getting them. I think it was General Patton who told his troops during WW2 “You are not here to die for your country. You are here to make sure the enemy dies for his country.”
We are supposed to be the aggressive force. We have such power and authority available to us, there in nothing capable of standing up to us. Read Old Testament stories of what happened when God’s people stood up to the devil’s brigade. Just one man – with God and under his instructions – wiped out the Philistine army. It was just one man – with God and under his instructions – that ended the evil reign of Ahab and Jezebel. There was another night when 185,000 invading troops were killed by an angel.
We have forces ganged up against us now that make most OT situations look like a Sunday School picnic.
God is not looking for big armies. He is looking for real people. He can do so much with so few. It will probably come down to that. It is time to quit mucking around. At this time – mucking around is treason.
Look – Jesus told us what to do. That is to ask for Father God to abolish existing civilian government and install HIS government - and to abolish existing destructive civilian “law” and replace it with the same regulatory processes that operate in Heaven. We call it “The Lord’s Prayer” and that is exactly what Jesus told us to pray into being. It’s other name is The Kingdom of God. That’s what all the fuss in about. The incumbent hoons want to hold on to their wicked ways and will do every thing they know how - and invent something if they don’t know how – to block what God is doing. They are a very determined lot. So far they are advancing with absolutely nothing blocking them. That’s what we are here for.
Blessings anyway
Edited by Moderator on 01/17/2010 at 7:53pm
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Topic: AFTER YOUR SHOWER - PART 2
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