Year # 22 — Reintegration- Reorganization- Reordering of:
Priorities
Vision
Understanding
Methods
22 = 11×2
3 Ways the written Word is corrupted:
Addition to the Divine Authority (10 + 1)
Subtraction from the Divine Rule and Authority (12 -1)
Alteration of the Word to fit man’s interpretation
Psalm 12:1 – “HELP LORD!”
Psalm 12:6 – Word tested 7x by fire in the crucible of clay – the heart of man
2 Corinthians 4:7-9 – “Jars of clay…”
Hebrews 12:5-12 (Passion)
Year #24 – Associated with Heavenly Governmental Authority
Hebrews 8:5 – Building/operating the tabernacle of God – Establishment of temple worship as a copy of how it is in Heaven.
Revelation 4:4 – The 24 Elders – leaders of heavenly worship
Year #23 – Year of “Crossing Over”: New perspectives, Divine Interventions, Increased Faith and Magnified Vision
Joshua 3:1-17
Hebrews 11:1-3
Acacia Grove – Thorny place; place of wailing
Joshua 3:1-4 – “…you’ve not passed this way before.” – Crossing by a different method – “When you see the Ark, follow it.” Vs 5 – Sanctify – divorced from the unclean – devoted wholly to God Vs 6 – priests went first before the people Vs 17 – miracle of the waters standing in a heap
Adam – mankind
Zaretan – distress
Prophetic Picture for RCF: The waters of distress will not touch even the bottoms of your feet as you cross over in year # 23″
“This doesn’t necessarily mean that the trials will end — only that you won’t be in distress about them.” — PR
Instructions for Success in 2019
Sanctify yourself – Divorce and Devote
Stay Alert – 1 Peter 5:8 (Passion)
Be Intentional in your walk with God – 2 Corinthians 10:5 (Passion)
Guard Your Words – Proverbs 4:23 (Passion) – Exhort, Encourage, Edify – Prophesy LIFE!
2 Corinthians 5:17 – Being “IN Christ” is gaining a revelation of Christ IN us.
John 14:18 – “I will come back to you.” –
Comes in 3 Ways
Literally after His Crucifixion
At the 2nd Coming (Parousia)
At Pentecost in the Person of the Holy Spirit to live within us
Galatians 2:20 – My life empowered by the faith of the Son of God
John 20:22 – “Accept the Sacred Breath.”
Acts 2 – “When the day of Pentecost had fully come…” or “When the time of process had come full circle and was ripe.”
Liminal – The Threshold Stage
God is working stuff out of us so He can work stuff into us!
We are not being saved from something but for something!
2 Corinthians 3:18 – Transformed by the Spirit from glory TO glory
Psalm 118:24 – I WILL rejoice and be glad …
Philippians 4:13 – I CAN do all things through Christ …
Passion – “For I am trained in the secret of overcoming all things … and I find the strength of Christ’s explosive power infuses me to conquer every difficulty.”
Colossians 1:27 (Passion) – the mystery of Christ living within
Number 23:19 (NLT)
“It’s awe inspiring that wind, breath, air and spirit are precisely nothing and yet everything.” – PR
Psalm 150:6 – “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.”
(Hebrew) – Breath – ‘Nishmat Chayim’ – “The Sacred Breath” – John 20:23
We possess great power to influence our own reality – Proverbs 23:7
We must learn to never begin something with a “NO” attitude
Concerning God’s promises for us we say “YES” and agree with God
2 Corinthians 1:20 (Passion) “For all of God’s promises find there fulfillment in Him; and His YES and as our AMEN ascend to God, we bring Him glory.”
Passion Notes : It is Christ whom speaks the Amen of faith through us.
“Knowing God is not a mind thing. God is beyond human thought. Knowing Him is a love thing. To know Him is to love Him.”. — PR
Western religion — tells people what to know instead of how to know.
Church at a crossroads — From belief systems to actual inner experiences with God — From head to heart.
“If our salvation remains in our minds alone without transforming our hearts it will be just an idea that’s never fully expressed in our reality”. — PR
Jesus saved us — not just from something but for something: We’re saved by LOVE to LOVE
PROMISE — PROCESS — PROVISION
John 3:3-5 — Born of the Spirit to ENTER the Kingdom of God
Brennan Manning — “We must confess our sins. We must acknowledge the evil operative that resides within us, which shows itself through our relentless self-absorption. If we gloss over our selfishness and the evil within us, we can only pretend to be sinners and therefore only pretend to be forgiven.” “Christ’s love and compassion is not given due to our goodness. On the other hand, it’s also not withheld because of our lack of goodness.” — PR Genesis 15:1-21 — God’s covenant with Abram required an offering. — God asks us to give Him something that He, Himself, doesn’t need — but something we need to give! 1 Samuel 17 — David vs. Goliath 1 Samuel 17:40 — 5 Smooth Stones of Warfare — 5 Proclamations of Promise / 5 Confessions of Faith 1) Covenential Confidence (1 Samuel 17:26). We have one with God — Our enemy doesn’t!!! 2) Don’t lose heart for the battle! — “I’m all in to the end!” — (1 Samuel 17:32) 3) Remember Past Victories — (1 Samuel 17: 37) 4) Confidence in the humble, mighty in God, weapons of your warfare — (1 Samuel 17:45, 2 Corinthians 10:4-5) 5) Declared Faith — (1 Samuel 17:46-47) “This day… !”
Foundationally – God’s authority draws it’s strength from the purity and holiness of His ways, not just in “idea” form but through their application.
Revelation 2:2-5
John 13:35 – Our first Love
Sin – Self-focused : When we sin we are focused on ourselves – not God or others
Anthony of Padua – “Of what value is learning that does not lead to love?”
Brennan Manning – “The truth of faith has little value when it is not also the life of the heart.”
Matthew 24:10-12 – “Cold Lovers” – don’t desire Jesus any longer so they don’t pray for restoration and healing.
Micah 7:19
Drawing from the deep well of the Holy Spirit within : “Our Present Risenness” – B. Manning
Our Prayer: “God, please awaken me to be conscience of Your Presence.”
Mark 9:23 – “All things are possible to him that believes”
Sin – keeps us in hiding and from seeing our “True Selves”
“We don’t see things as they are . We see them as we are.” – PR
Sin – is the fuel that feeds the “Imposter”
Confession – removes condemnation which sets our spirits free
Freedom – allows us to draw from the well of “living water” which brims over to whomever God puts around us so that they become free and delivered from enslavement to their own personal Imposter.
“When we are free to love, love sets those loved free.” – PR
Our Authentic Self — God’s plan for us from our creation
False Self — what we believe our self to be base on external experiences
Coming Clean — making an admission of our sins before God
Sin — consists of anything that keeps us from becoming our authentic self.
Jesus was able to become what the Father sent Him to Earth for because He was never attached to a petty False Self for His identity.
“Christ” isn’t Jesus’ last name.
Jesus became the Christ through the process of His life on Earth as He overcame each obstacle.
Jesus’ identity was transformed after the Resurrection.
When Jesus died, the Christ rose!
He is our model for salvation: “The Way”
Our assignment: is to recognize , acknowledge and let go of our small, needy and inadequate self to become a greater and authentic “new creation”
1 John 1:9(Passion) — “If we boast that we have no sin, we’re fooling ourselves and are strangers to the truth. But if we freely admit our sins when His light uncovers them,He will be faithful to forgive us every time. God is just to forgive us our sins because of Christ and He will continue to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
Notes from Passion : Confession doesn’t gain us favor with God. This was won for us by Christ. Confession cleanses the conscience and removes every obstacle from communion with Christ. Rom 14:22-23 (Message Bible) “… you’ll know you’re out of line if the way you live isn’t consistent with what you believe.”
Romans 14:23 (NKJV) “…. whatever is not from faith is sin.”
Ego : the center of the “False Self” — exactly who I think I am.
Psalms 51: 1-3, 5-13, 16-17
Romans 6:23 Luke 1:38 — Matthew 16:39 –“Not my will but yours.”
Teresa of Avila — “When you find God in yourself you’ll find yourself in God.”
Isaiah 65: 24 — The gift is already given!
John 1;3
Acts 17:28-29 (Passion)
Ephesians 4:30 — The Holy Spirit is sealed within us for the day of redemption — we can not lose Him !!
Grieving the Holy Spirit:
1. Living inconsistent with what we believe causes other things to be elevated in us ultimately becoming idols and living according to their beckoning. This is sin which brings with it unrest and lack of inner peace.
2. Remaining ignorant to our birthrights as Sons and Daughters of God.
— Brennan Manning — “The Imposter”– allows us to wear many masks which constructs the “False Self”
— The False Self buys into outside experiences to furnish a personal source of meaning; money, power, glamour, etc
— The Imposter is an illusion with no substance of truth.
2 Corinthians 3:18 –” transformed from glory to glory with unveiled faces…”
An illusion can’t cultivate a transformational relationship with the TRUTH, without which, faith will dwindle and die. This is also sin and grieving to the Holy Spirit. — Hebrews 11:6
3. By neglecting His presence we don’t get to enjoy His Fruit — Galations 5:22 and Isaiah 11:2
A. Wisdom — to cherish what is heavenly
B. Understanding — to make sense of things
C. Counsel — Instruction for right living
D. Fortitude — Supernatural courage and strength
E. Knowledge — warnings and guidance
F. Godliness — ability to follow Christ
G. Fear of the Lord — awareness of the Divine Presence; the key to transformation
SIN: is a veil that impedes transformation and must be rent by acknowledging it in surrender to the “Light”
(GRK) –to miss the mark —
(HEB) — to carve out or cut down
Our Lives — a process of “gaining light”
Psalms 138:1-2 and Psalms 139:23-24 (Passion) — PRAY TOGETHER
“I thank You Lord, and with all the passion of my heart I worship You in the presence of the angels. Heaven’s mighty ones will hear my voice as I sing my loving praise to You. I bow down before Your Divine Presence and bring You my deepest worship as I experience Your tender love and living truth. “God I invite Your searching gaze into my heart. Examine me through and through; find out everything that may be hidden within me. Put me to the test and sift through my anxious cares. See if there is any path of pain I’m walking on, and lead me back to Your glorious, everlasting ways — the path that brings me back to You.”
“God washes all the shores of the Earth twice a day. How much more will He not wash those who ask! —- Amy Carmichael
3. God Is Hidden — The full truth of God is beyond our comprehension.
— If we try to explain God by a specific event, situation or doctrine we are in essence “playing God” and end up distorting the truth.
— Truth: No spiritual leader, Pastor, Priest, Monk, Rabbi, Imam or Spiritual Director has any special knowledge about God.
GOD IS ALWAYS GREATER THAN OUR MINDS AND HEARTS ! Matt 4:16 (Isa 9:1-2) The mystery of life revealed — To discover the personal God. Discovering His Presence through A Perception of His Absence: The Cloud of Unknowing.
Psalm 22:1-5In the Cloud” we meet God in the way He wants us to: beyond human knowing and beyond what we are presently.
4. God Is Looking For Us
He is: The Good Shepherd leaving the 99 for the 1.
The woman who lights the lamp, sweep the house until the lost coin is found.
Abba — watching for us and patiently waiting for our return.
The question:
Not — “How do I find God?” but “How can I best let myself be found by Him?”
Not, “Who is God for me?” but A quest for me to discover “Who God says I am to Him”
“When I cry ‘Abba’ I claim that I am a seeker of a deeper relationship with God and I will be found by Him ! — “PR
The Spirit of Wisdom and of the Spirit of Revelation — so that we might have direct knowledge of Him.
“Ordinary Knowledge” — Knowing about Him through second hand experiences or hearsay.
Affords a sense of false security in our relationship with God.
Direct Knowing — produces the sovereignty of sons of God and the inner authority to BE witnesses of Him to the world.
Jehovah Rophe — “The Cure”
Humility — allows us to look at ourselves truthfully and to admit our powerlessness without Him.
Courage — allows us to enter the “cave of the heart,”confess our wounds and our need for “The Cure”
Julian of Norwich — “The spiritual life begins with the acceptance of our wounded self.”
Brennan Manning — “Seek transformation not information.”
Spiritual Hunger — to pursue holiness.
Holiness – doing things God’s way.
Craftiness — The serpent’s way
Nature of the Son — to do the Father’s will.
John 10:11 — “I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd gives His life for the sheep.”
John 10:27 — ” My sheep hear My voice and I know them and they follow Me.”
Psalm 23 –” The Lord is my Shepherd —-“
Shepherd (Heb) — Ra’ah — “Best friend”
1. He supplies every need.
2. Lie down in green pastures
Love (Grk) Agape —
Ago — “to lead like a shepherd”
Pao — “To rest”
His love leads us to a place of rest in His heart.
3. By still waters — (Heb — Menuha) “Waters of a resting place” -speaks of tranquility in times of storms.
4. Restores my soul — “He causes my life (soul) to return.” — So often our lives drain us.
5. Leads me to paths of righteousness — “Circle of righteousness.”
Sheep traveled up the mountains of Israel in a circular manner forming paths to the top. With each step we take the Shepherd leads us higher, though it may seem like we’re going in circles.
6. In the valley of the shadow of death we fear no evil.
A shadow has no substance. It is only a representation of the an original.
7. His rod and staff bring comfort. ” The comfort of Your love takes away my fear. I will never be lonely.”
Rod — correction
Staff — guidance
8. Prepares a table in my enemy’s presence.
The place He chooses for fellowship makes a mockery out of those who would bring accusation against us.
9. He anoints my head with oil. — He anoints us with the fragrance of the Holy Spirit.
Two Types of oil:
1. Oil of the priesthood
2. Oriental perfumed oil – the fragrance of God’s hospitality.
Both overflow us getting on everyone we come into contact with.
10. Goodness and mercy follow me all my days.
(Passion) — “So why would I fear the future? For Your goodness and love pursue me all the days of my life.”
11. I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
(Passion) “Then afterward, when my life is through, I’ll return to Your glorious presence to be forever with You.”
