So we looked at base camp and how we prepare our spirit to be able to engage and this is the area we are in now, we are engaging our spirit. so in our spirit we know the presence of God is there, we know there is a river of life which enables us to engage back into the realms of heaven when we came from but also enables us to engage in the unseen realms of the our spirit and our soul because we can’t see them physically but we can engage them and experience them and also in the angelic realms that are here in this dimension around us there is a pathway we are going to follow on this and were starting with the house of God and the whole module really is about first love and how we relate to the father son and spirit in intimacy and last week we looked at I am a dwelling, so that God dwells in me and I dwell in him and this week we are going to look I am a mountain and the mountain area is a key one and I am going to go into it to set a foundation really for a lot we will pick up later on when it comes to mountains and understanding mountains in heaven understanding mountains in our own life. now we are made in the image of God and we are patterned after the heavenly tabernacle which is a dwelling place is what it means so there is outer court, inner court and holy of holies and we have body, soul and spirit our body is a dwelling place and our spirit is also a dwelling place that is a picture you get familiar with in terms of the gateways of our body soul and spirit and how there needs to be a flow from the inside out flowing from God’s presence and God’s kingdom in us through us and around us to engage the world so that we can administer the kingdom on earth as it is in heaven and were focusing in that area first love gateway is the gate or doorway between God’s kingdom in us and our spirit and the door handle is on our side although we’ve invited God to come into our life and to be in our spirit he does not presume to take over, unless we invite him and there is a three-dimensional view of that Revelation 320 behold I stand at the door and knock that is the door that he is standing knocking on from that door flows the river of life within our spirit, there is a place of rest and government, thrones and there is also a place of intimacy and connection, the yoke of Jesus and we will pick up those in future sessions Genesis 2812 and 17 are key Scriptures, I would encourage you to meditate and engage in these Scriptures they become your personal place of engagement we know that Jacob engaged God and he saw a vision or dream where heaven was open and a latter was engaging there from earth to heaven now the angelic were coming up and down but also it was an indication that Jacob could engage there as well and he described this is as the house of God and the gateway to heaven now Genesis 12:8 describes where Abraham first encountered the same place he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel so this all took place on a mountain. He built an altar there the first altar in that land and called upon the name of the Lord now we know the name of the lord is, I am, we looked to experience some of I am last week so where does God dwell in heaven where is Gods throne in heaven, if we are made in the image of God, then there is going to be a connection. were made to reflect heaven so it makes sense that if heaven is patterned a certain way then we look at our lives we should see that pattern at work. so there will be a connection where God dwells and rules in heaven and where he dwells and has his throne in us we are to be ambassadors living in heaven and on earth and the heavens government and therefore understanding where God is and how he rules is really important for what we are going to do and how we are going to rule. so the point of all of this is so that we will be manifested as sons on the earth as it is in heaven God wants to put us on show he wants to show what is to be his children and how his children rule and govern and administer the kingdom as his representatives and that’s what we are learning to be. Ezekiel 2813 this is talking about Lucifer before he fell and became the devil as we know him. it says you were in Eden the garden of God you were on the holy mountain of God so Eden the garden of God is on his holy mountain in the realms of heaven Psalm 6816 why do you look with envy oh mountains with many peaks at the mountain which God has desired for his abode surley the Lord will dwell there forever. God dwells on a mountain that’s where he is in heaven the whole of heaven is patterned in those mountains when God started coming to the earth to engage people unsurprisingly it was on mountain tops and the first engagement was with again Abraham where God told him to take his son and sacrifice his son, he told him to go to the land of Moriah on one of the mountains and Abraham first engaged God’s provision because God providing a lamb which was a pattern of obviously what was coming with Jesus because because Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son it set a precedent that enables God to sacrifice his son and Abraham called the name of that place the Lord will provide as it is said from this day in the mount of the Lord it will be provided so the mountain of God is the place of provision, it is a place where God’s provision meets us at our point of need Exodus 2417 and to the eyes of the sons of Israel the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a consuming fire on the mountain top so God’s presence showed up and they saw it on a mountain top Psalm 48 one greatly great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God his holy mountain, now you get different terms introduced synonymous really for the same place so the city of God and the mountain of God our synonymous terms and the Bible uses lots of different terms to describe where God dwells where he rules where his throne is sometimes it might be described as a temple some like a city some a mountain but they’re all talking about the same thing where God dwells and rules exodus 33:1 Moses led the flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to horeb the mountain of God now God is now describing a place that he says is his mountain this is where his interaction with the earth takes place and later we find that, that is the same place as Mount Sinai so where God came on the mountain as a fire he been before where he met Moses that was described as God’s dwelling place on the earth Ezekiel 2040 says for on my holy mountain on the high mountain of Israel now there is a progression that goes from being a physical mountain and a physical place to describing Israel as the mountain of God, the place where he would dwell and the place where he would have his authority on the earth through. then Isaiah 6620 they shall bring all your brethren from all the nations to my holy mountain Jerusalem now it’s not just a nation or group of people, it has come to a physical place his holy mountain now Jerusalem so things are getting a little bit more specific, there is progression deeper connection intimacy and eminency where God is now unsurprisingly God is not want to be in just a physical place and John 421 Jesus said to her the woman at the well believe me an hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the father but an hour is coming and now is when the true worshipers will worship the father in spirit and in truth so now the mountain of God was not just in a nation or a place in Jerusalem or a temple there, It was actually in us because God is a spirit and those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth and it is in our spirit that we actually begin to engage in worship of God and where God dwells so the mountain which was a physical mountain and was a people and was a place is now actually us we are that mountain God did everything on mountains so Eden was a mountain mount Moriah which was the same place, as later on was Jerusalem was a mountain, mount Horeb, Sinai, Israel Jerusalem now we are God’s mountain Exodus 1517 you will bring them and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, the place oh Lord which you have made for your dwelling , the sanctuary oh Lord which your hands have made and established so he is established and made us to be his dwelling and to be a mountain Psalm 2:6 as for me I have installed my King upon Zion my holy mountain this is talking about Jesus it also can be talking about the sons of God who were installed on mountains to rule so now the mountain is going to be expressed in terms of rulership kingship authority his throne is on that mountain so our spirit is a mountain it symbolic of the authority of where God’s throne and dwelling place are . our spirit is a place of governmental authority in which that government is supposed to be expressed through our soul and our body to the world, to bring the kingdom on earth as it is in heaven God’s kingdom resides within our spirit, we saw that luke last week God has called us to rule as his sons he has called us to rule. therefore you’re a mountain you’re a place of authority when God dwells on your mountain you reflect the heavenly realms because you also have mountain ranges in the heavenly realms and this is why the symbol of mountains is so important because when we start to engage in the realms of heaven we will see that God patterns everything on mountains and he is given us mountains like his mountain to Govern and rule. we have thrones in heaven on those mountains now we know that were seated in heavenly places this is where we are seated on thrones of government the intimacy of relationship that we are developing can’t stop there it must go on to take responsibility of son ship to rule. It has always been God’s intention that we would bring his government and establish his rule to the whole of the created order each of us has a position of authority Matthew 4:8 this was when Jesus was being tempted in the wilderness says the devil took him to a very high mountain that wasn’t talking about mount Everest here which is the highest physical mountain on earth it was talking about a higher mountain in the realms of the spirit and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory because if he took him to Mount Everest he wouldn’t have seen all the kingdoms of the world. because basically you only see as far as the horizon. but in the realms of heaven you can see because it is a different time space dimension he showed him all those kingdoms and their glory in other words what they were to represent in representing God and he was shown actually all the governmental spheres including yours and mine and he was offered them if he would take an illegitimate route to them. But of course he didn’t. so each of us have seven mountains or governmental spheres under our positional seat of government in the heavenly kingdom of God now I’m introducing this is a concept now because this is where we going ultimately once we understand and engage in the mountain of our own life those mountain ranges in the realms of heaven are patterned after God’s mountain the seven mountains represent those redemptive governmental aspects of our destiny we are called and have a destiny to bring God’s government into the earth in different ways in different spheres all differently according to our unique destiny but all of us are called to have government yet none of us is actually supposed to be a failure in this life wer’e supposed to rule and establish the kingdom . the enemy wants to rob kill and destroy and remove that authority from us he does that by getting us to sin and in that guilt shame and condemnation is very hard to rule. Because you see yourself as not who God sees you. but when we begin to identify ourselves with our identity as the kingdom of God and with mountains and authority then we can begin to establish God’s government .all these spheres of authority are destined in the role each of us has as sons of God so that we can bring creation back into restored order and then go into what God always intended which is going to be an exciting journey. now in the Hebrew language each letter is a picture, you know it wasn’t developed as an audible language it was developed as a series of pictures therefore each word is a comic strip mountain in Hebrew which is that Hebrew symbols Hara is our English sort of pronunciation of it actually means behold the ruler of rulers so the word mountain if you break it down into its Hebrew letters and picture actually means behold the ruler of rulers so when we are looking at our spirit as a mountain that is what it a ruler of rulers’s. it is a place of government and a place of authority and we need really to understand that if were going to administer the kingdom now we have to think Hebrew and not Greek and that is not always easy because were brought up to think in a Greek manner which is always about form what does something look like when we think of a mountain we think of what it looks like rather than what it’s for so we need to think function what is the function of a mountain. The function of the mountain is authority. The function of a throne is rulership. When we come across m mountains in the Bible or when we come across them in our dreams visions our encounters with God we need to stop thinking there is a big lump of rock, things that we climb up and things we put a flag on. because that’s the way in which we have seen mountains we need to think of them as positions of governmental authority Psalm 2:6 lets read the whole of this as for me I’ve installed my King upon Zion my holy mountain I will surely tell the decree of the Lord he said to me you are my son today I have begotton, talking of Jesus but equally talking about us we are sons of God he has created us to be rulers on his mountain and his, our spirit is a place of rulership so the kingdom of God is associated with mountains Jesus is enthroned as king of kings and we are the kings he’s king of Isaiah 2:2-5 and 12 to 14 and 17 to 18 is a really important passage to get hold of now it will come about in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord so the house of the Lord is the ecclesia of God the gathering of his people which is made up of many dwelling places John 14 it is described as a mountain which will be established as chief of the mountains so if there are other mountains in this world other mountains in the realms of heaven this it says is going to be the chief of the mountains and will be raised above the hills because when this mountain is raised up all the other mountain will look like hills now there is a technical height that you have to have to be a mountain as opposed to a hill . I remember a film once about a place in whales that they decided that they were going to add a few feet to the mountain and hill in Wales to make it a mountain but in reality we already have that if we understand who we are and our call as the church as the ecclesia of God is to be raised up into that position of authority and government and what does it say all the nations will stream to it because we will have the government of God we will be living under the rule of heaven will be living in a place where heaven’s spiritual authority will be manifested on earth we will not be subject to the laws of this earth but these are the things we have to start to establish the destiny of God’s people and the true ecclesia of God and the true government of God is to rule it’s to be that mountain of the house of the Lord raised up and it’s in these days God that god is looking to establish this now I want to to establish this in a in a fairly systematic way, because I want you to see the progression of what God is doing. Daniel is a book which is very significant it was a book of prophecy it was a book that was sealed up and it is a book which is now open so the revelation of what these things are has been progressively released to us now so Daniel two 34,35 you continue looking until a stone was cut out without hands we know that stone is Jesus the stone that the builders rejected became the capstone of the pyramid that held everything together and it wasn’t cut out with hands another words it wasn’t human in the same way that we are. it came from heaven inasmuch as you saw a stone was cut out of the mountain so Jesus came out of the mountain of God out of Eden out of the place of authority in heaven and it struck the statute. now the statue was a prophetic picture of four kingdoms, Babylon, persua, Greece and Rome and this kingdom this new kingdom which is established this stone actually struck the mountain but the stone that struck the mountain became a grant great mountain and filled the whole earth. that is God’s intention the kingdom which is established from what Jesus has done is to fill the whole earth to establish his government through the whole earth. in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed and that kingdom will not be left for another people. And it will crush and put to an end all these kingdoms not with military might but with love because that’s how the kingdom of God operates through love authority administered through love and it is not going to be for another people or another time it’s for God’s people who are part of that kingdom Daniel seven again describes what went on in the establishing of this kingdom I kept looking until thrones were set up those thrones were thrones established for Jesus and for us they were established for us to occupy of governmental authority in the realms of heaven and the ancient of days took his seat his vesture was like snow and the hair his head like pure wool his throne was ablaze with flames its wheels were a burning fire a river of fire was flowing and coming from before him thousands upon thousands were attending him and myriads upon myriads were standing before him. We can go to that place because from that place is where our throne is not the thrones that are on our mountains. the throne that we are seated in the place next to God, it is where the fire stones are. it’s a place where our eternal destiny is released. And it is a place we are going to go to, some of you been there, I’ve been there a lot of times, it is a very intense place as you can imagine with a throne blazing with flames and fire and a river of fire flowing. But it’s a place we can engage in. the court sat and the books were open and I kept looking in the night visions and behold the clouds of heaven coming of the clouds of heaven was like the Son of Man he came to the ancient of days and was presented before him this is what happened after the resurrection and to him was given dominion glory and a kingdom that all the peoples nations and men of every language might serve him his dominion is an everlasting dominion which will not pass away and his kingdom is one which will not be destroyed, were on the winning side if were part of this kingdom we get to win. Now it might not seem that way at the moment it might seem that were far from winning the reality is we stick with this and we embrace our governmental authority as children of God we will overcome because who does God give the right to sit on the front those who overcome those who are more than conquerors those who are victorious those who actually are taking there position of government but the saints of the highest one will receive the kingdom so when Jesus received this kingdom he wasn’t keeping it to himself because we are joint heirs with him in authority and government and what were we need to do possess the kingdom forever for all ages to come so this is not a kingdom and that there be a different kingdom and then a different kingdom this kingdom will continue to grow and expand forever and it says for until the ancient of days came in judgment was passed in favor of the saints of the highest one. as a result of the cross judgment as already been passed that judgment is we get to have authority we’ve been given the authority through that judgment and the time arrived when the saints took possession of the kingdom that is what we’re doing taking possession of what belongs to us , our inheritance in God as children of God to bring government on the earth as it is in heaven. for the court will sit for judgment and his dominion will be taken away and annihilated and destroyed forever. that is talking about Satan’s rule that’s why Satan was able to show Jesus all these governmental spheres on this mountain. but now as a result of the cross it’s been taken away he has no authority other than what we give him. then the sovereignty the dominion and the greatness of all the kingdoms under the whole of heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the highest one. get hold of that, the dominion and the greatness of all the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the highest one, you and me, his kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom and all the dominions will serve and obey him. that is just amazing that he would take people like us who messed up he would restore us and redeem us and bring us back into son ship and wholeness and give us this sort of authority but that is what he wants to do. And he is looking for a people who will say yes. revelation 1:6 and he made has made us to be a kingdom of priests to his god and father to him be the glory and dominion forever and ever amen. He has made us kingdom of priests he’s made us royal priests it says in Peter Revelation 510 you have made them to be a kingdom of priests to our God and they will reign upon the earth. this is where our sphere of government is to be out worked we will reign on the earth because we are reining in the heavens. the problem is we try to reign on the earth without reining in the heavens first and we come across. now God is opening up the fact that what we started with there is an open heaven there is a ladder going up to heaven we can engage in heaven and experience where we are supposed to rule and then we can begin to reign on the earth to bring the government and authority of the kingdom to be manifested on earth revelation 1115 the kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ and he will reign forever and this is where we are this is what God is calling us to do Hebrews 1218 you have not come to the mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire and to darkness, gloom and whirldwind. another words were not coming to Mount Sinai anymore because Mount Sinai is no longer the mountain of God. you have come to Mount Zion to the city of the living God to the heavenly Jerusalem and to myriads of angels to the General assembly of the church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven. That is us we are the church of the firstborn Jesus enrolled in other words empowered in heaven and we can come to that Isaiah 9:7 there will be no end to the increase of his government or peace on the throne of David and over his kingdom to establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness from then on and for evermore the zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this God is committed to doing this,he is just looking for people who will volunteer there is a Scripture I think in Daniel talks about people who will volunteer in the day of his power and do great exploits. that is us and this is the day of his power and he is looking for willing volunteers will take up that position of government to rule in justice and righteousness the purpose of true government is to bring rest and peace now God must be on the seat of rest and government in me and on my mountain on my throne until I’m seated on my throne in heaven as a fully mandated and manifest son of God so there’s a process which we go through to be invested with that level of authority so the kingdom is within us there is no end to the increase of his government peace shalom wholeness whatever you want to describe it as therefore the kingdom must also increase expand and grow in me and through me and around me as I am an embassy of heaven on earth and corporately we become that embassy as we set up a city of refuge the government of God on earth as it is in heaven personally I’ve had many many encounters with mountains I’m actually here because of a mountain vision I had in 1993 I was completely out of it having been prolapsed and flat on my back on the floor and was having a vision of climbing a mountain and literally I was climbing on my back it was like a physical body was engaged in this vision and as I went up on this mountain i was taken to various places to look out and see and I could not remember after the vision what I saw because my mind could not engage it, but my spirit did and over the last five or six years God has shown me what I, my spirit saw then, in terms of what we’re doing now in terms of heaven and the things we do in 2006 I saw a vision of a mountain rising up out of the desert and on it was this picture of this pyramid shape which is about the four faces of God and the pattern of heavenly government , I didn’t understand it all then but it was it was in 2006 which is eight years ago God started to bring a revelation of this mountain that was being raised up and it was raised up to a certain point and then stopped until this government was established on it and then it began to go higher and that’s what we been doing the last 2 to 2 1/2 years trying to establish government hereafter the pattern of heaven and it’s been really hard work those you can attest to that, who were in it. Because the enemy wants to hinder us establishing a pattern of heaven on earth because he does not want God to occupy that because he knows he is in serious trouble when the glory of God starts to manifest rather than the presence of God and this is where we are going. so God is looking for a reflection of heaven in us and on earth God is looking for the government of his kingdom on earth as it is in heaven judgment is coming to the church and to us on the basis of what God sees so God is looking judgment is not mean punishment it just means a judgment is made it says this looks like me this reflects me and heaven and this doesn’t. and those things that look like him and the pattern of heaven he will come and occupy and those things that don’t, he won’t and he will actually move from. now Jesus talks about the authority figures on earth and how they lord it over people in Mark 1042 Jesus says his kingdom is a totally different kingdom he didn’t come to serve but to not to be served but to serve so that dimension of the rule of God is about serving not dominating and often we talk about dominion and authority and power it might seem as if we are trying to say we are going to dominate everybody. No we are going to love people and serve them to bring the world back into its rightful place so everything about rulership in God’s kingdom is about serving not dictatorship the first will be last and the last will be first this is what this is about it turns on its head the whole system of the world in which people want to be more highly placed than others and use other people to climb up and then they stamp on them and keep them down. That is the world system in the kingdom authority is all about raising people up. So what is a reflection on earth of the heavenly mountain? If you think of that being the heavenly mountain how does that look like on earth it looks like that. it is not about us sitting on mountains and having everybody under us. it is us being in our position of authority and then releasing and blessing others to come into everything. and what happens when you bring that together you have the window of heaven open. you have the four faces of God the order of Melchizedek being manifested on earth as it is in heaven so there is a place where you rule it’s called a mountain and a throne the nature of that rulership is that were called to raise people up into their own places of authority and power not to keep them down and subservient. that is what Joshua generation is all about. taking another generation into their inheritance releasing people into their places of God governmental authority and power were called to be that Joshua generation of mentors ready to receive the harvest that is coming, to release them into the fullness of their government on earth as it is in heaven that is our call so let’s practice experience in this again. We are going to keep practicing and engaging God Revelation 320 behold another words lets look and see I stand at the door and knock. if anyone hears my voice and opens the door I will come in to him will dine with him and he with me and we know this is talking to Christians but actually facet anybody here does not know Jesus does not know the father has never opened their life to God and invited God to come into their spirit to dwell and live and to rule then his opportunity today to do that you just need to see Jesus standing in front of you and you need to open the door to you like to him and inviting to coming that means a total change of life that anybody can do that if they choose called repentance turning away from the way you are going and turning to follow Jesus that as Christians we need to give God is daily invitation to fill us up and flow through us we need to invite him to our mountain and to our throne one Corinthians 617 the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with him and this is a process wherein becoming what becoming joined in finding oneness spiritual union so when we open up our first love gate and invite God into our spirit where inviting him to come into a place of unity oneness with him when we become one spirit where we become just flowing together in this wonderful relationship and this will mostly be a spirit to spirit communication don’t try and analyze it just let your spirit receive it but it may engage your most about somewhere society might be your emotions you may feel this is some of you it might be your imagination you may begin to see an encounter it for some it might be a reason you may just get thoughts filling you of God and God’s presence and what is trying to reveal to you but if you don’t get any of that allow your spirit to absorb the presence of God and the truth and the reality of it is your spirit will then begin to come out of that revelation and begin to pass that on to you so so coming to an understanding so Jesus is knocking some pictures here of it we have a door within that pillar of cloud whatever it is in our spirit that door has an expectation of his presence find it has a door handle that we have to reach an open house would encourage you to close your eyes to think of that door just relax to think about that door think about the fact that God is behind that door start to picture that door in your imagination with its handle you may hear Jesus knocking on the door you may hear him speaking to you at this point this would encourage you to reach out open that door you’ve never done it before to open that door to God and ask him to come on the mountain of your life as Lord and King invite God in all of us is that door is now open just sense with our spirit soul and body just be open to experience his presence his embrace to do that feel how much he loves you feel his acceptance oneness this being joined connected to him heart-to-heart close and intimate begin to engage the father son and spirit just surrounding you and enveloping you as you stand in the midst in him place of peace rest security safety is joy of his pleasure passion for you feel his delight grace and mercy all around you Chewning you in this room right now is a canopy of the angels just being low over us just begin to engage in oneness unity of the father son and spirit flowing around you into you as they begin to reveal themselves to you to reveal your true identity to father son spirit want to receive impartation through the spirit Revelation who God is his character his nature us that Jesus bring the love and joy and peace deep into our spirit that the father bring patience and kindness and goodness flow into your spirit just receive from the Holy Spirit he brings revelation gentleness faithfulness and self-control spirit absorbed that revelation frequency the fragrance color sound resonate vibrate with the frequency of God that surround you surrounding you encompass in the is who he is some of you may just want to stay in that place just bask in it of those may want to go deeper you want to go deeper just let deep call you to deep come deeper in to him as he expresses his ways the functions of his gun government and kingdom to you on your mountain your position of authority who you are as a mountain of God the Holy Spirit releases revelation of righteousness peace and joy Jesus reveals the way the truth and the life father releases revelation justice and judgment wholeness deeper and deeper into the very fabric we use and how to function government revelation of I am in you the Holy Spirit just reveals more to you who use is joy is abundances vitality his exuberance his energies passion is joy of life feel it just that Jesus show you more of peace and shall on wholeness the father brings love and acceptance affirmation and approval to you as children of God father point you to the spirit spirit wants you to Jesus Jesus points you to the father in oneness unity they long to bring you into intimacy imminence God’s you can enter into true rest of your heart burning fire passion rest as I was in heaven this morning looking into this sore the father releasing the seven spirits of God there is a rainbow color around this room right now a seven spirits as we engage in worship as we engage our spirit worshiping in spirit and in truth is we release and engage the latter God this morning as we engage heaven in our worship heaven engages us just be open to interact with those colors the seven spirits the spirit of the Lord of the Lord mandates you feel position of government will establish a mountain spirit of wisdom who will equip you for that position government spirit of understanding will authorize you your position of government spirit of council will pay of the position of government spirit might will reveal you in that position of government spirit of knowledge will empower you for your position of government spirit of the fear of the Lord will bring you into accountability feel position of government you are a mountain you have a position of authority in the kingdom just accept that position and be willing to the true to train by God through his seven spirits to come into full place of governmental authority so he can manifest you on earth as it is in heaven a sons of God answering the grown of creation to bring everything back into plan purpose of God from eternity into eternity
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