Do
you hunger and thirst for righteousness, not with a casual desire, but
with an intense, burning drive? Do you want to walk with God, not just
to know about Him, or even to minister in His name, but to really know
Him in a deep walk with Him?
You cannot carry limitations within yourself. God did not impose them by
one Word that He spoke. Not one time did He impose limitations. The
Scriptures tell you that you have an unlimited, perfect provision for
every need until the whole man, spirit
and soul and body be preserved unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it. I Thessalonians 5:23-24.
What shall we do with these promises? We should hate every day that we
live short of God's provision! How can we enjoy life when it is so
limited? No matter how successful we might be in walking with God, the
restoration of His truths for this hour will not mean much if we do not
appropriate the total experience that God has provided for us. Oh, how
we should grieve in spirit before the Lord with deep intercession and
crying in our hearts. God Himself is the only answer for meeting us now.
Either we have a Word from God and Christ's resurrection life as our
reality, or we have a religious philosophy, a mental assumption that we
do not believe will ever really work for us. Let us believe with faith.
We should be disturbed, we should not cease to be on our faces before
God until our experience totally measures up to the Word we profess, the
word we believe. This would end the gap between provision and what we
experience of the provision.
This coming year you should declare war upon the unbelief of your own
heart. Declare war on the satanic lie that sometimes calms and soothes
you into accepting something short of what God has really said over your
life. To be half-healed, to be half-delivered, to have God touch your
eyes and yet see men as trees walking (Mark 8:24), to have a taste but
not really to know all that God has for you- that must end!
What we have received from God so far is not enough. We must not stop
until we have a meeting with God- not a meeting where He pats us on the
head and says, "Your a good boy." He must meet us so that we can be in
fellowship and walk with Him.
Let us demand an end of partial fulfillment- of seeing through a glass
darkly, of knowing in part, and speaking in part. We must put away the
childish incompleteness (I Corinthians 13:11-12).
If the devil can stop you in your personal walk with God, he surely will
stop you as you try to carry the gospel of the Kingdom to others. It
starts with you. It is time to seek the Lord and say, "Pardon me, Lord, I
was misunderstanding things. This is not going to happen anymore. What
You said is what will be. What You set before me is what I am going to
experience. I shall no longer settle for anything short of entire
sanctification-spirit, soul, and body.
We
must see God's purposes accomplished. Instead of merely existing, let
your faith anticipate resurrection life. Go after the life that God has
for you.
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