We are going on a journey an adventure together. There are 2 main pathways that we are going to follow Pathway of relationship that leads to deeper intimacy with God Pathway of responsibility leads to greater kingdom rulership .
2 Cor 4:18- so we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. Prophetic gifts & Seer gift of distinguishing or discerning spirits. This can be imparted as a seed but needs to be cultivated in our lives. We need to engage angelic beings who are sent to guard and guide us.
What do we need to know for this journey? Faith, Basic truths, The language of the Spirit, Base camp, spirit training.
Faith -Heb 11:1- Now faith is the assurance, substance or evidence of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Expectations for this journey. What do you believe? What do you expect?
Heb 11:1 Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not yet revealed to the physical senses].
Heb 11:3- By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.
What are our expectations of our journeys? God will respond to our hopes or expectations. Faith engages our expectations. Your consciousness has the creative power to frame your world.
Matthew 9:29 Then He touched their eyes, saying, “It shall be done to you according to your faith. What do you believe will be done? For you? In you? Through you? Around you?
Mark 11:22-24 And Jesus answered saying to them, “Have God like faith. Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted him.
Matt 11:24 Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted you. If you don’t think you can, you can’t. If you don’t think you can hear and see God you probably won’t. If you don’t think you can step into heaven you probably won’t.
Matt 6:9 “Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. 10 ‘Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven.
Eph 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, Faith engages the heavenly realms first and that manifests the unseen in the physical realm.
We are going to engage the unseen or invisible realm from which everything exists. We are going to learn how to manifest the unseen. 2 Corinthians 5:7 for we walk by faith, not by sight.
2 Corinthians 4:13 having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed; therefore, I spoke,” we also believe; therefore, we also speak. We can frame our world from what we can imagine, believe and speak.
Faith leads to experience. Faith opens doors. Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; Door of Salvation – healing, provision, protection, deliverance, wholeness.
1 Cor 2:9 “Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, And which have not entered the heart of man, All that God has prepared for those who love Him.” 10 For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God.
1 Cor 2:14 But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. We need a living spirit to engage spiritual things legitimately.
Heb 4:12 For the word of God is living and active.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Word of God both logos written and rhema spoken is living active powerful and is a person Jesus. Jesus will be your reference, guide, doorway and anchor on this journey.
Word is living and active and waiting for you to experience it.
Salvation, healing, blessings, promises, angels, heaven, visions, trances, dreams, the manifest presence of God etc. are available to us through faith.
John 21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that would be written.
Word of God is our foundation and starting point, guide, doorway and anchor. Not everything about God and the heavenly realms is in the written word.
Use faith as a doorway to experience. Heb 4:2- For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith in those who heard.
Heb 4:2- We received the same promises as those people in the wilderness, but the promises didn’t do them a bit of good because they didn’t receive the promises with faith. If we believe, we’ll experience that state of resting, but not if we don’t have faith.
Luke 17:5 -The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” How can we increase our faith?
James 4:8- Draw near to God and He will draw near to you .Praying in the spirit – gift of tongues.
Jude 1:20- But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
Rom 10:17- So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. Hearing the prophetic and living word.
Eph 6:17- And take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
Rom 1:12 that is, that I may be encouraged together with you while among you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.
Fellowship with faith filled people.
We have not been this way before therefore we need to have confidence that God will lead and direct us. Faith = confidence. Confidence means with faith. Who is our confidence in?
Luke 11:11 Now suppose one of you fathers is asked by his son for a fish; he will not give him a snake instead of a fish, will he? 12 Or if he is asked for an egg, he will not give him a scorpion, will he? 13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”
Enemies of faith on our journey. Familiar spirits, Fear, Doubt, Unbelief, Insecurity, Pride, Skepticism, Legalism.
Friends and tutors on our faith journey -spirit of the Lord, knowledge, wisdom, council, understanding, might, Fear of God.
There are two pathways you can follow in life. Tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Tree of life. We all start out on the first. Will you stay there?
We all have an opportunity to change paths. The first pathway leads to death. The second pathway leads to eternal life with God – relationship. Which one do you want to be on?
To join this journey you have to have a living active spirit that is connected to the source of life in the spiritual realm. You have to have a relationship with the guide. You have to know God through Jesus. He is the only way to legitimately engage spiritual dimensions.
For the unbeliever the human spirit is in darkness. Once God has come to dwell inside our spirit, the Spirit of Man is renewed and made light with the presence of God. The renewing process starts from within and penetrates outwards. This begins with joining our spirit to the Lord’s.
John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
Know the truth or reality. John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. “The Matrix”- discover the real world or continue to live in deception. Join the journey, come into reality, and take the red pill so the veil of blindness is removed.
Choice between a red pill and a blue pill. The blue pill would allow you to remain in the fabricated reality of the Matrix, therefore living the “illusion of ignorance.” The red pill would lead you to escape from the Matrix and into the real world, therefore living the “truth of reality.”
This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember, all I’m offering is the truth – nothing more. Discover the real world or continue to live in deception- the choice is yours.
2 Cor 4:3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, 4 in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Do you want the veil of blindness removed? Do you want to discover the real world or continue to live in deception?
How do I start this journey and a get a relationship with God? Make a decision to follow Him as a disciple. Surrender your life to Him. Change direction and paths. Change your destination. Transfer from the kingdom in darkness to the kingdom of light. By faith choose to follow Jesus.
Come Follow Me -He made the implications clear with some unambiguous statements. Count the cost before you set out. Don’t start out and look back.
Deny yourself. Leave everything behind. Give up your rights to everything. Let your love for me make your love of everything else seem like hate in comparison.
Our Spirit is given life by God’s Spirit the breath of life. Our spirit receives God’s light and becomes light. Our eyes are opened to the light of truth. Drink living water and receive a fountain. Our spirit becomes a house for God’s presence.
Analogies or illustrations of how you can encounter God in reality as a person. Drinking Living water. Engaging the light. Opening the door to your life. Returning to the Father.
John 4:10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” 13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
2 Cor 4:6 For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
Rev 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with me.
Luke 15:20 So he got up and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion for him, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. 21 And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
Luke 15:22 But the father said to his servants, ‘Quickly bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet; 23 and bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat and celebrate; 24 for this son of mine was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.’ And they began to celebrate.
Activation
Make a choice to follow Jesus. Start to picture drinking living water as you drink your spirit becomes alive and a fountain of God’s Spirit forms within your spirit. Feel the source of life come into your spirit. Feel the bubbling life-giving forgiveness wash away your past, cleansing you.
Make a choice to follow Jesus. Light floods your spirit opening your eyes to the truth – your spirit comes out of darkness and becomes light. Feel the truth of who you are adopted into His family. Feel His love revealing how special you are to Him.
Make a choice to follow Jesus. Picture your life as a door. Jesus is knocking, open that door and let Him into to bring life to your spirit and make a home in you. Feel His love, acceptance, forgiveness. Feel His joy and peace fill you. Feel His presence in your spirit.
Picture yourself coming to God in dirty clothes. You come carrying all the burdens and weight of your past life. See God welcome you with open arms with love in His eyes. You have to drop all that you are carrying. Feel His embrace of acceptance and love. He gives you new clothes and a ring of sonship.
Receive forgiveness for all your past. Receive cleansing from all your past. Receive a new identity as a child of God. Receive adoption into a new family. Receive love, acceptance, affirmation. Receive a destiny and purpose.