I praise God that he loves us and as the Lord has been showing me more and more each day it's not about us or anything we can even accomplish, add, or do but its all by his strength and for his glory. I don't have access to a computer except a few times a week and there so much the lord has stirred me to post this last week and so I'll start from last wensday and continue on.
Its been a very stirring past few weeks, God has been drawing us closer, calling his people to the higher walk in the spirit. Not like he wasn't before but the urgency to be all in and all for God without a single spot of the world has been on my spirit every day...all day. On wensday I had a unique experience, at least its the first time I have experienced this. While I was praying I felt like something was thrown around my shoulders, I could even feel the weight of it in the spirit. And I heard the lord say " Put on the mantle". I Immediately considered the mantle that Elisha received after his predecessor was taken away. After finding the scripture in one of the Kings books it stood out to me how Elisha pressed to stay with Elijah even though three or four times he was told to stay behind but he knew what was to happen and what he wanted, and he got it.
And the Lord gave me spoke this to me that day...
Seek me out, and put on the mantle. For those that ask shall receive and those that seek shall surly find. You desire more, more of my spirit, more of my power. I say seek first my kingdom and even this shall be added unto you. The kingdom suffers violence even until now, but I say the violent take it by force. Will you seek it out? Will you wait on me night and day? Are you willing to die to yourself and all you desire that I may live in you. For in the time to come and even now I have called you to a walk in the spirit, separate from this life. That when you speak rivers of living waters flow from your bellies. That when you walk, your shadow heals the blind, the deaf, and the sick. That when you say to the mountain "be removed" it is done. I say all things are possible to them that believe, for what is not possible with man is possible with me. I dwell in you and so does the power of my spirit and my kingdom. Believe, for I have chosen you for such a time as this.
On sunday the Lord also showed me a few things. First he showed me a vision of a old oil lamp with the wick lit. The Lamp was trimmed a few times but the light didn't seem to get any brighter. Then I saw someone pour oil into the lamp and it instantly was brighter. And then the Lord started to show me that though we have this walk, if its not totally in spirit, it is lacking. All of our works, our love, our labour are only made complete by God and all he is. I know some believe the oil represents the spirit and I agree but it is so much more. It is the Gifts, the living of your life in complete surrender to God, the acceptance that you are nothing and he is everything. The Lord also spoke a word to me and this is what he said..
Where is your treasure? Where lies your heart? Do dwell on this that are seen or things that are unseen? For the things which are seen are temporal, it is that which is not seen which is eternal. My children, my words shall not pass away, but this world and all that is in it shall. Store up this day your treasure in heaven, and seek after the things eternal, where no man can steal nor rust corrupt. For even I have called you and chosen you. Look to me and do not dought all that I have shown you. I have said that it is those that finish the race are those that receive the reward. Confer not with flesh and blood but i say confer with the spirit, for the carnal man is always with you and able to be corrupted. But as it is written, follow the spirit and you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. Who here is above temptation. Who here is above being tried? Are you yet perfect? Are you God? I say be humble and for every trial I will make a way of escape, for you go from glory to glory, strength to strength. I know the thoughts of a man, I know his heart. My children be prepared, be prepared that you don't look back, that you don't forget the mighty works I've done in the midst of you. My children, the enemy will come to deceive you and to try you, but cry unto me and remember that I am in you, and who is greater than me? Every mountain I bring low and every valley I exalt. So my judgment shall rest for a light unto my people.
Even more I feel the urgency to draw near, to get all we can from the Lord. The time is short and soon the door will be shut. We cannot have anything less then all for God, we cannot dwell close to the fence. We must be all in in every way, ready to be obedient even unto death. May God bless and to him be glory for ever.
Your brother in Christ,
Austin
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
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3 comments:
Thank you for sharing this, brother.
I receive the second word the Lord spoke to you. It bares witness that it is truth and I thank God that those He loves, He chastens.
Pride comes before the fall, but for every trial God does make a way of escape. It is our choice to choose the way of escape every single time.
Amen to what you wrote.
Ryan
Thanks Austin,
Everyone who will see the return of Jesus, that is worthy, that will be caught-up, will be called and chosen, as Job, Noah, and Daniel, for such a time as this. Fully prepared by God for their calling and election. The mantle that they will wear is a mantle of Righteousness that only the Holy and Separated unto God can wear.
Austin you wrote:
"I know some believe the oil represents the spirit and I agree but it is so much more. It is the Gifts, the living of your life in complete surrender to God, the acceptance that you are nothing and he is everything."
There is great confusion in Christendom as to just what that oil is. My understanding is this; it's like a man looking at a small stream and saying this is the Holy Ghost, I speak in tongues. The next person further down stream sees a wider river as other tributaries have added volume, he says, I prophecy. A little further downstream the river widens even more, becoming greater, the man there says, God has given me the ministry of miracles. The oil in the lamps is actually like the end of the river, great and wide but made up of hundreds of smaller portions that made the end of the river great and mighty. The oil in the lamp is the Holy Spirit the fire of the lamp, those who carry the oil, the vessels are men and women. Like the river, the attributes of the oil for the lamps, are all the characteristic of the Holy Spirit, inseparable and undivided. That is the quality of the oil, of God, in our lives. Having access to all so that we can see in the light of truth.
Jesus is Truth, His word is Truth, His love is Truth, His way is Truth, Jesus, the Spirit of Prophecy is all Truth revealed. These are the tributaries of the end of Truth;
1 Corinthians 12:4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
6And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
7But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
8For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
9To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
10To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
25If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
What part or portion could you separate and say, I have the oil, when it is all the oil, the Third Person of the God, the promise of the Father. If we are indeed full of the oil, the Holy Spirit, the fullness of the gift of God, we have nothing to fear. The question we must ask is do we know we have "that" oil?
L,J,P&HG
Dave
Truly Truly the Lord is speaking through you young people what a great blessiing and encouragement to me this site is/thank you all for being obedient servants of the most High God.
Helen B
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