A Word In Season
A Deeper Dimension
I have been receiving many emails the past few weeks from people that want to know God in a deeper dimension. They are writing that they want to learn how to hear the Holy Spirits voice and be used in the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
As I was driving to church on Sunday the Holy Spirit showed me something interesting. As I was sitting at a traffic light on a hill I looked over to my right and observed a man on a bike having a lot of difficulty as he was peddling to get up this hill. Not only was he using all his strength and effort trying to peddle but it was also raining out which added to his difficulty.
The Holy Spirit showed me that in the same way that a person has to be in physical shape for physical activity, a Christian has to train themselves spiritually to receive spiritual things such as receiving revelation, hearing His voice and be used in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. The bible encourages us to pursue love and desire these spiritual gifts especially that we prophecy.
1 Corinthians 14: 1
Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
You must be physically fit to ride a bike on level ground before you can ride up the hills and mountains. As in bike riding there will always be a season of training in which a child starts out with training wheels, then one training wheel will be taken off at a time. It is the same in the kingdom of God. It will require diligence in the Word of God and prayer and a personal relationship with Jesus rather than a religious ritual in learning to hear His voice and receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit. If you asked any athlete that has won a race what they did to obtain the prize they would tell you that they were willing, steadfast and diligent. The more that you train, the stronger you will be. If you are lazy and lethargic your muscles will deteriorate and eventually atrophy.
1 Corinthians 9: 24
Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it.
The other night I had a dream. In this dream I was telling two Christian ladies about a dream that I had of them. This is what I said to them:
I had a dream that I was with both of you. We were standing in front of my book shelves with hundreds of books. I was pointing to all my books and I said that I used to read all these books since I became a Christian because I always wanted to hear from God and you know what? I never heard from Him until I stopped reading all these books. Now I am just reading the Word of God and now I hear from Him daily. Now I hear from Him so clear. And I also had to unlearn all that. They both said to me – that’s right, that’s right you finally got it.
Then I woke up. This dream was so real and I know that it was a God dream. Some of you are looking for God in all the wrong places. There is nothing wrong with reading anointed Christian books but you should be led by peace rather than driven. Too many voices bring confusion. You see, I was eating off the tree of knowledge of good and evil which represents human knowledge rather than eating from the tree of life which represents wisdom and revelation.
Do you want a deeper relationship with The Holy Spirit? What good is a scalpel in the hands of a two-year-old baby that is going to be a brain surgeon one day when he grows up? There is a training process and the secret is in acquiring a personal relationship with Jesus.
Hebrews 5: 12 - 14
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.