You cannot walk with God without revelation. We must understand the difference between revelation and illusion. Almost everyone who is trying to walk on with God faces a certain amount of illusion, which is often difficult to separate from revelation or even from logical conclusions and evaluations of a situation.
God speaks to us in three ways. 1-Words or spontaneous thoughts. 2-feelings, we can feel His emotions. 3- Visions, dreams or pictures.
Most of the revelation I get are spontaneous thoughts-but the devil communicates this way to. He is a religious spirit, an angle of light (dark light) and counterfeits the Holy Spirit.
Have you ever noticed how you can see a little fault in another, a little root, and it suddenly looks like a whole forest. But revelation can be distorted. The very process by which we receive revelation is used by Satan, and there we can have an element of illusion.
If we could really see one another with a pure revelation, what overwhelming love we would have for one another! How we would glorify the Christ in one another! But instead of that, sometimes we fall into the magnifying process of beholding one another’s faults—not beholding one another’s dedication, not beholding one another’s true love for the Lord—until the whole picture becomes one of total deception; and yet it looks like revelation.
How can deception look like revelation? By this amazing distorting process of illusion where Satan magnifies a small thing: a word, one act, a circumstance, a personality trait, until everything—everything—is changed.
This process of illusion that Satan creates can result in the greatest unbelief you have ever had in your life. Faith must have a revelation that rests upon the Word of God (Romans 10:17), but unbelief can rest upon the distortion of a circumstance, an illusion of something which really does not exist.
A careful study of the wanderings of the children of Israel in the wilderness would show that they leaped to negative conclusions over their circumstances until they murmured and complained, and they played right into the hands of Satan (I Corinthians 10:10). Everything came out of that: unbelief, rebellion, murmuring, complaining.
Yet the circumstances they were looking at did not really justify the illusions that they accepted or the unbelief which was the actual result of that illusion.
A lot of spiritual warfare has come against us. The delusions and deceptions of Satan have been great. We have been tried in the fire seven times (Psalm 12:5–6), and the male and female sons of God are beginning to emerge.
“But He knows the way I take; when He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.” Job 23:10.
“And He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may present to the Lord offerings in righteousness.” Malachi 3:3.
In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. I Peter 1:6–7.
Prison houses are going to be opened up (Isaiah 61:1). People are locked in, and they must be freed. It is not going to come without deliverance. And what is deliverance but a judgment upon the demonic powers that have locked people in, locked in their spirits and souls, oppressed in spirit. It’s time to set them free! It is this freedom that we contend for.
Wherever our old flesh is to blame, God is dealing with it. But wherever there have been human instruments in the hand of Satan dedicated to our oppression, they will either repent or be judged.
We are determined that we will be representatives of the Lord and ministers of His Word. That is our dedication. But know also that the enemy has dedicated ones, too—ones who are as dedicated to your destruction and your defeat, as dedicated to see you become a disgrace to Christ, as you are to see Christ glorified in you.