I want to look at this session in terms of the position that you have and may not know it yet or you may not be aware of it but actually you have a position and that position is a position of authority Ephesians 118 says I pray, this is pauls prayer for everybody I pray that the eyes of your heart, now what are the eyes of your heart the eyes of your heart is something that enables you to see within your soul which is not your physical eyes so we would call it your imagination and your imagination is a screen that is designed for you to put these things on in the same way as you perceive things, what you see physically and that screen God can project things on because he gives you visions or dreams or you can even add pictures prophetically that’s the same screen that you see things when God shows you something we can learn to see things and use it ourselves so it is not just an voluntary thing whenever God shows me something that’s where you see it but actually you know I can choose to really learn how to use my imagination to begin to activate being able to enter into some thing so when we do an activation I encourage people to activate their imagination what I am saying is open the eyes of your heart start looking in a different way so it helps to close your eyes because when your eyes are closed your brainwaves go from beta to alpha waves, alpha waves are slower and it means you’re not in problem solving mode but you’re in medative mode and you’re in a mode which enables you to begin to perceive things without you looking at them and trying to understand or figure them out so when we close our eyes it shuts the outside world off to enable the inside world to begin to see and so then you can then choose to kick start that by picturing something thinking about something so let’s say we are thinking about a door we start thinking about a door and it sometimes it helps if you look at a door it gives yourself an image or remember a door like your front door of your house and when you got that picture and your starting then for that picture to begin to form use that picture to go through. once let’s say you’re thinking of the door and I am going to say think about opening the door and then you might picture in your mind you might even be able to see it in your mind or perceive it your getting a sense of it then you open the door and now walk through it. now from that point you are no longer using your imagination to create an opening you have gone through the opening. so whatever happens after that point you’re not making it up. because this is the biggest problem people think I’m just making it up this is just something that was in my head yes it is, but it is supposed to be in your head like everything else is suppose to be in your head but your not making it up you’re using your imagination to engage a Scripture or a principal of life okay behold I’m knocking at the door so picture a door picture Jesus knocking at it whoever hears my voice we’ll what’s he saying he is likely to be saying let me in or let me out you know that that’s what it’s like to be saying then when you have engaged that then you opened that door and Jesus comes through you don’t know what he’s gonna say you don’t know what he is going to do you don’t know what is going to happen so then you just experience what you experience and at that point if you don’t see anything more relax and just be open to the fact that something is happening even if you don’t see it. if you do see it then just go with it, just go with whatever that’s going on. he may talk to you , he may say something to you, he may take you by the hand. usually when we do activation I encourage you to picture Jesus is going to take you by the hand and he is going to lead you wherever you need to go and then you just go with that flow and you maybe a seer in which this is an image which is like your their first person in your happening you may see it as a third person and you may be looking at yourself with Jesus walking, all that is is what different people do. some people just now they just really sense and perceive what it is that they’re doing and they just feel it and you may not be necessarily seeing it as a vision but you are feeling and sensing what’s going on so you may sense a sense of peace we may have the thoughts in your mind of some conversation or something that happed to the word see actually can be interpreted perceive which means you perceive something by some manner rather than it just being a vision because the point of the whole thing is that you will know something. so I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened or opened to see to know in this situation to know what is the hope of his calling that is your destiny. he has called you for a purpose to be in relationship with him and to be with him in his purposes for creation what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. so in all the things it’s like learn to open the eyes of your heart and then I learned to open the eyes of my spirit because my spirit can also engage and perceive and that’s how I like to see the spiritual realm I didn’t do it with be my imagination I actually learned to do it with the eyes of my spirit because my spirit is designed to see in spiritual things and so I learned to see from the perspective of, my spirit would engage with the realm and inform me of what was going on in the realm. and I can do that with eyes open. if I close my eyes I can choose to visually engage it. but most the time I’m my eyes are open or I am journaling so I don’t. but it doesn’t any less real you know some people if I can’t see it I don’t believe it. You know I can’t Believe it until I see it you and the reality is yes we can train our senses to see if we really practice a lot. or you may be a natural seer and that’s the primary way that you see but you might not be such a hearer and then you have to learn to hear because there is no point having a silent movie. you he what you want you want the full-blown experience and actually means being able to develop all the senses. so Einstein said logic gets you from a to be but imagination can take you anywhere and that is true because once you’re able to go beyond your natural perspective then things begin to open up and you know Einstein did not receive the theory of relativity by standing at a blackboard with chalk and trying figuring out a whole load of theories he actually said he was lying in a meadow and the thoughts of God he said danced in his mind and he actually had those things it come into his mind and go around his mind and then he then began to then put them down onto a blackboard. You know so that place were we just in that place of rest where he can begin to overcome some of the obstacles we tend to put in the way is really important that we just learn to rest in that. Psalm 47 says verse seven says this behold I come in the scroll of the book it is written of me I delight to do your will oh God my God your always within my heart, not that is describing Jesus and that is reiterated in the book of Hebrews and he describes the scroll of the book. now a scroll and a book so slightly different things one sense but in reality it is talking about the outworking of something which is been written of me. now each of us should be able to say the same. my life and what I’m doing in my life is a result of outworking the scroll of the book that is written about me and then I delight to outwork God’s will in that. and if you don’t have the delight then it can be duty and obligation and not much fun. but the delight changes it, it is excitement it is like an adventure , what is gonna happen today. you know rather than I wonder what’s going to happen today. It is all about the perspective. You know your laws written on my heart so he is not saying you can’t do this you can’t do that. he saying all those things which are the permissions that we have to do what God wants us to do are actually written within us and they should motivate us if we connect to them. but if we don’t know them most people wandering around, why am I hear? What am i supposed to do. What is life all about and we were asking those questions but the answer is found in our relationship with God so that scroll is a letter of decree or commission that carries our destiny or purpose the pathway to find the provisions for fulfillment all that is contained within it. it is a decree that authorizes us to be. and we need to spend a lot more time being than trying to do. because Jesus said I am, not I do. God says I am that I am, which is the continual being. when we engage with God you find that he is being. he is being, he is at rest, he is at peace. he is not frantic about the world and what’s going on .and when we discover that for ourselves we can be in that place of rest in that place of peace rather than striving . so this session we going to really look at our position. our position is to be invested. this in an invested position . now invested means you are given something that authorises you for that. so Prince Charles was invested to be the Prince of Wales and then eventually he would become king. so it was something where in a sense you are clothed with what you need to recognise that position. there’s lots of different ways if you look it up in the dictionary . but our postion is being a heavenly position yes were on earth but we need to be in the heavens so that earth looks more like heaven than it does earth. because I think most people are fed up with what earth looks like to them and wants a little bit more of what God would like them to have from a heavenly perspective. So is is a heavenly position or positions, there are positions there. 12:16
Our position- having mountain spheres of authority. all of us have various spheres of government that God authorizes us. we usually call them visions or we may call them callings, we my call them various things. but there are areas where we have authority, areas like our family or perhaps a workplace or perhaps a particular ministry area or perhaps a particular gift area. and people have all sorts of different areas. that when you discover them most of them are not really a surprise, because they really who you really are. and there’s those things that you are really into. that you probably think maybe that is not God, but it is. because most of our destiny is already being unveiled in us. and to discover it isn’t like reading a book about me and then I am going to find everything out. it is almost discovering what in my life already points to what’s written about me in a book. in that scroll. Where you willl find that you already have desires that are associated with that in you. and sometimes you may have those desires and other people have talked you out of them. or put you off them. because they told you that you cannot do that. so sometimes you can also tell areas of your destiny by what most opposition you have had. which is trying to stop you doing those things .because the enemy does not want you to fulfil your destiny. so he will try and put obstacles and road blocks in your way. so you can look at the discernment of that, and you think okay, there are things that I am really passionate about. and then there are things that I never managed to fulfill. which maybe because you got to fulfill them. so it is with spheres of authority these are heavenly spheres that outwork into the earth. so my family is a very earthly thing but I need to see it from the heavenly perspective. I need to administrate it from there otherwise I am going to be trying to find solutions for all my problems in a purely do it yourself way rather than seeing it from heavens perspective and doing it from there. so our position is leading to enthronement. that’s when we are actually enthroned and seated in the position not just aware of it. I can be aware that I have various mountain spheres , and I was but I did not know they were mountains. and I didn’t really know what they were specifically, but I knew I had callings of my life and I knew that there were aspects of my life which I knew God had put me into. But I did not see them from that perspective, from a heavenly perspective at that point. and when I did God showed me where my mountain was in heaven. So this is where I am. your identity and your position are linked. and it’s sometimes almost impossible to separate them. It is impossible to separate them because I am a mountain. I am a son who carries authority. but I also engage that mointain and sit on the throne that is on that mountain. but when I’m seated, I’m in the fullness of my identity and I’m positioned to act on that and outwork it. so eventually we do need to take our seat. Because we are seated with Christ in heavenly places but we actually need to function there, not just have it as a theoretical position. so investiture is the action of formally investing in a person with honors or rank. Investiture- a ceremony at which honors or rank are formally conferred on a particular person. and actually that happens. Actually it has already happened, in that you’ve already been invested with your identity and destiny from God’s heart in eternity . when we actually get enthroned, it sort of brings it all together and we accept that investiture and now we are willing to operate in that. because actually let’s say Prince Charles was invested to be king, as Prince of Wales. We’ll he could turn around and say, I do not want that anymore. I’m passing that on to my son . but he could. so you can know your place but not want to do it. by sitting on that throne you’re accepting the position and what goes with it. so until you’re sat all the investiture in the world actually won’t really give you the authority until you actually accept it and are seated at rest in it. so another other words our induction inauguration appointment intrustment even baptism actually I found was a form of investiture, in which we are clothed with something effectively. the robes of righteousness. so invested, provided, or endowed with someone or something with a particular quality or attribute. so you been invested with the attribute of sonship. and the authority of sonship, with the position of government. invested to furnish with power authority your rank. invested to install an office or position. so all those things really are part of it. we are invested with identity and destiny, were invested with the position of relationship. were invested with the position of governmental authority. it is vital we know our heavenly position and roles. because we don’t know them and were not seated in them we won’t be able to really function from them effective. even though God’s gracious and merciful and even if we’ve not done any of this . it don’t mean our whole life has been a mess. I’ve done all sorts of things which I know were God’s plan for me even though I didn’t know how to do them from a heavenly perspective at First. because that’s the journey we are on. God knows where we are and he knows that we are not going to come into the revelation that we can go into heaven until we do. So he is not going to penalizes us for what we don’t know. ignorance is not a punishment. If your ignorant your not responsible but we have to remain ignorant we can now and then we take on the responsibility of that knowledge to outwork it. so what is a position, a strategic area occupied by members of the force. we think of a military position. now if you know anything about military position you know you want to occupy the high ground. because that’s the best tactical position you could be. and it’s exactly the same in this. you do not want to be operating under something else. you want to be operating over it and under God. God is the only covering we need. he is our covering he is our spiritual authority. we don’t need anybody else’s to be a son. because no one else can be a father to us other than God. So it is a strategic area, that’s the position an advantageous position or location. social standing rank or status. a post of employment, a job. It is a position. the area for which a particular player is responsible in a football team or a rugby team or other team. So that is a position. all sorts of ideas around this, that are all giving you a little bit of a clue about some of what this is about. the right or appropriate place. and that’s the place we want to be in. and then we can work as a particular area of responsibility within God’s kingdom .and will find that it carries with it actually a position which is recognised in heaven. once your seated there, the heavenly entourage of angels will recognise you. when your not seated there, they don’t. because you’re not in authority. so a position in a government. Being chief Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer defence Minister education minister transport Minister. Depending upon what country you come from. we got a Prime Minister journey as a Chancellor of the Presidents. there are all positions within a system of government.
and that position endues you with the authority to use it. if you’re not in the position of Prime Minister you can’t actually take that role. the same in any position you can go and try and take someone else’s position. or the position that you might fancy or like. I want to be Prime Minister. If you haven’t been given that role you can’t just go and take it so it is something you have to discover in relationship and realize that God is giving you this.
so, we do have heavenly positions and we have earthly positions. so there are positions in heaven where we have our mountain and our throne. and that’s our position of government for all our spheres. but then you might be given another position to operate as a judge in a court or a Chancellor in a court or another role. so although you have your main identity your given roles that are potentially increasing in authority as you mature. and there are also earthly positions and benches of three. governmental positions operate on earth. and there are ministry positions. There are things that God is calling us to do on earth as well is in heaven. loving people sharing the good news there are some general ones that we all probably have responsibility for. to witness , to share the good news, to be good news, to demonstrate that. to do the things that on earth Jesus did. all those are things that we can do. now they work better when you know that there the things that God is doing so you can do them with him. not instead of him. so a lot of people asked the question – what about fivefold ministries? That is a big one. I get asked quite a lot. because that’s the general system in any sort of charismatic penecostal type thing. it is always hierarchy of things. but actually it hasn’t ended because there is a whole load of people. what ended was the way that God was engaging that. none of those position should have been authoritative- in a sense of ruling. they were not supposed to be governmental positions they were supposed to be equipping positions. so the fivefold ministry gifts are there to equip the saints for service. not to do it for them or to be experts substitute of them and then everyone look at them to do all the work. so the profit was never supposed to just prophesy. it was supposed to equip people to hear God. the problem became when it took on a governmental role rather than a equipping role. and that is what basically I think Ian clayton was saying, that whole thing where apostles are the government. God is not recognizing that. before that it was the prophets. and you find people’s title changed in various streams over the years when they were pastor so and so they became profits so and so and now they are apostle so and so. simply because the latest rendition of what government is and the highest form of it. But actually, it is an equipping thing .so there are earthly roles to equip and there is nothing wrong in that at all. there is nothing wrong in ministering to someone or in prophesying over them. if God says so. not though to become a substitute rather than helping that person hear God for themselves. and that’s where the problem comes. I went to prophetic conferences because I wanted to hear what God said. now I was never taught at a prophetic conference to hear what God said. they just shared what God was telling them rather than how you do this yourself. otherwise, they do themselves out of a job I suppose. and they all had built ministries around prophesying and telling prophetic words rather than teaching people to do it. in reality that’s what it should be. so that’s okay and I think God wants us to help each other. Zechariah 3 to 6, 7 talks about the position of having charge of the house, ruling the house, in charge of the courts. so the house of God that’s me to start with. I am the primary thing of God’s house. he dwells in me, I am a house of God. so I do have responsibility to rule that house with godly government, so that I am- my whole life is is coming out of my relationship with God and bringing order into things. but also having charge of the courts. now we learn to use the mobile court to deal with accusations and petitions. But there are lots of other courts and will look at that tomorrow and look at the different courts that we have authority to operate in and to use effectively to administrate. now some of those courts are legal and civil and some of them are more like assemblies or councils that you engage. so the position of heavenly government, kingdom authority.
so I am dwelling God I am a mountain I am a gateway. that’s basically me, you, all us ,are basically that . and that is the simple foundation of government. but then there may be other roles that we have as we mature and grow. it is an appointed position. you have been appointed to it. You did not usurp it or try and get it. your appointed it. it is a mandated position. so you have authorization to do it .it definitely is governmental. I think people sort of shy away from that whole thing because they really don’t understand quite what it is and what it is about. Government that shouldn’t be something were involved with. it really is because that is what kingdom is. it is a position of sonship. our destiny has specific positions attached to it. which will unfold over a time of maturity. and God has spoken to me about certain positions that I know I am not ready to operate in. so I’m not putting them off. but I’m aware that I need to still mature if I’m going to function in certain roles. There are certain roles that I accepted, and I learned on the job if you like. because I didn’t know what it was about, and I was tutored and trained by wisdom and the seven spirits and by Jesus in that role while I was doing it. because I didn’t know any better. Oh, yah I will do that, but in reality, I now want to weigh what God says in a view of- is the timing of that right. because God says things prophetically to us and sometimes, we rush to try and do it and actually he is saying something for 10 years’ time. but once he said it, it is an inspiration to continue towards it.
he does know us and he knows how we will respond but we also need to have a fully rounded personality which reflects all of God’s characteristics not just some. so yet I have a redemptive gift which is profit teacher, their virtuous synomoms and I learned my third aspect was to rule. but actually, Jesus carries them all and if I’m going to be more like him then all of those characteristics will start to be built in my life and therefore the primary thing that often drives me, needs to be tempered with some of the other things which will help me be fully rounded. so, when God says something, he is now saying it because he wants to inspire me to look towards that. but I now am more circumspect to realize that just because he says it doesn’t necessarily mean that today’s the day. so I then in relationship with him look to develop what that means. I don’t just assume any more because I made some such a lot of wrong assumptions. so I now go back to it. I will meditate on it and I weigh it, I don’t just jump into it. now sometimes God says do something you need to do it now . you need to do it now. and you learn to discern what is an inspiration or a direction. Because if God says duck, you better duck otherwise you are going to be in trouble. and you don’t Wanna go asking where is that in the Bible before you duck. because you Wanna listen to his voice and you Wanna respond. but when God says I’m calling you into this role there is usually preparation that goes with the call. and I’ve learned that there are seasons that take you into that generally. But it is different for everybody. so you go with what you are but I would just make sure that everything is relationally done. and you check it out. there is nothing wrong in checking it out with God. because what he said to me in two years time you are doing something different was like okay yah I accept that. what does that mean. I don’t know, but i accept it, but I went back to him to find out what it meant. rather than me trying to work out what it might have meant. that type of thing . so now I’m cooperating with him in the next two years to bring me to the point where that shift will take place. so I know it’s a process. some things are an event and most things are a process. so we just need to learn to discern what is an event and what is a process and work with it. when we engage the father that’s when our identity gets revealed. it can’t be revealed without a relationship fully. so that happens here in my own life in the garden of my heart, within my spirit, within Eden the father’s garden. I engage the Ark of the presence of God. I go to the record room. I go into the eternal now of gods heart. all those places contribute to that. and they add different aspects to it. and I’ve learned there are so many different places where you can receive revelation inspiration encouragement support empowerment. and so it doesn’t become a rut or a ritual and I think that’s why God freshen things up . he doesn’t want us to get into a routine that misses out on the relational perspective of it. because were so easy to default back to- we’ll this works , I assume this will work every time and then I get in a routine and then the life goes out of it because I just doing it. so the key is to be open to engage the father everywhere. anyway you need to. and be led in it. so I just, my spirit leads me. I don’t have a set routine of what I’m gonna do. I just engage God, usually first Love, i open my first Love gate okay what now? we embrace I sense his heart I then sort of ok is there anything I sense that I need to talk about? is there anything he wants to say to me? do we just hug in silence. and I just know things or any of those things. but I generally sense what the next- normally we have a conversation. where that conversation takes place is different. and where it takes place often is because God wants the conversation there because actually it is about something that relates to that. if it’s in me, in the garden my heart. usually the conversation is about me. him wanting to refine me, or purify me, or there is an area within my heart that is not at peace so you he wants to talk to me about it. if I’m with him in his garden, it is much more creation connected. yet if I’m in a waterfalls of heaven or something , if I am on the throne of grace it is much more about- you need to rest and offload. and then let me work while you are resting here and that is going to be effective for you. so I don’t have a routine of going to all those places one after the other. I did when I was developing the pathways, because I was practicing. but now I don’t practice I just live that way. so I don’t have to follow a routine other than I do open my first Love gate every day. I invite God into my spirit, father-son and spirit. I love engaging the Holy Spirit and drinking living water. I love yoking myself to Jesus and learning to be gentle and humble in heart and walking with him. And i love surrendering to the father. and letting him father me. because I never really had an earthly father who fathered me. so I love hanging out with the father and he loves me hanging out with him and so we spend a lot of time talking. well I spend a lot of time listening actually. because he got a lot better things to say than I have. but sometimes there is a – what do you mean by that? or can you explain a bit more? Or can you open that? he said to me I want to show you something. So I am like ok great . where are we going? so then we go to a place. So he said we’ll we are going here. so we went there and I was looking at there and as I was looking at this place where I have been before with him all of a sudden I started to realize that what I was looking at was a construct of my own fear. because the way I was seeing some which was a real place but the way I was perceiving it was this was difficult and this is hard and I don’t know how to do it. because it was beyond my comfort zone. so I’m there with him, I am in this place I’d been there before I stood there for six months once. because he told me to go there. I didn’t know where it was originally. but eventually he pointed me in the direction, I am standing there every day, going back there because he told me to go there. And I am looking at this portal and it was like a revolving door with a slit in it. you know you get like a hotel door. the hotel room door mold, you have to jump into it at the right time to get through and it was revolving fast. So, I am sitting there, thinking how I can get through that because actually it was outside, it was beyond. And it was deliberately beyond where I’d been before because God wanted to take me beyond. but something in me was resistant because I was- I’m not sure I want to go there. I don’t know how to get there. So, I had all these things, so I stood there for ages, I kept going back there and nothing happened. Because I wasn’t prepared to jump through the slit. And I am usually quite bold doing stuff, but this one just sort of filled me with a little bit of trepidation. so, I stood there and stood there and eventually God came and stood with me. and he says your still standing here. So, I am like yah. So, you want me to take you through there. yeah, so go in there and I’m completely nonplussed because it’s like a dimension that is nothing like this one. What was the point, what was the point of taking me in there? because I don’t understand anything. in fact, I don’t even understand it, I can even describe it. it is like-we have seven colors and here is 55 different colors. nothing like the ones here and I can’t describe them. and it was like that, it was completely upside down. It was like a dimension which was completely different. but there was a point in it and I discovered more and more of the point to it. but eventually I’m standing there and I am seeing the slits and they feel like, we’ll there are going faster you know so then the father said look. the reason I’m showing you this is because they are not really like what you’re seeing. and this is something you have access to but you don’t think you have an actually you are frightened. I was not about to argue so I didn’t. I decided actually there is no point in arguing. the reality of that is the truth so then I said okay- I want to be able do anything you say- send me to do. so I renounce that fear, I am not going to operate in fear so i stood there and actually the whole way it looked changed and then it became like a veiw into something else that I could see from this side but slightly different. and it was a portal that I could walk through but I could see on the other side but in a slightly diffracted way. so, I had a clue what was in there. so, then I realizes that there was a whole load of other ones there that I never noticed because I was focused on this one that I couldn’t get into. so then God was like- and they were all like a spiral of like a maze of all these doors into things. and reality is like God took me there he could have shown me that only months ago or a year ago. But he didn’t because I wasn’t ready but now he knew I was ready so now he then took it the next step and opened that up now I didn’t go through at that point because I saw all these things and I am wondering which one am I going to go through and am I going to go and look at them all, am I going to go and actually find out which ones I need to go to any particular time. so a lot of these things, it is like God in many different places and the places he will take you to engage our are important to recognize and sense. and if you don’t know where to go ask him to take you. he will lead he will guide. once you have accessed the realms of heaven and you been there, and you walked there, and you engage there. you can access them by thought. I don’t have to walk the pathway that I use to walk learning where everything was. I just think of a place, and I go there. so when I first went to the throne of grace I discovered where it was by walking around and finding it. generally, by following the river of life because that seemed to go all sorts of places that had lots of interesting things attached to it. so I followed it and kept Going with it until I found all the places where it lead to. until I found the throne of grace and then I stopped. and then when God said to go beyond beyond. I was thinking where that and he is said will go where you been before and then see where that goes. and I never thought of going beyond the throne of grace. but there was beyond. so I followed it . because I love the throne of grace so much I wouldn’t really interesting what was behind it. I didn’t even think about it until he said now you need to go beyond- beyond. So there is lots of times where he is going to stretch you. And he will show you something different. but there will be always a point to it. And the important thing is to get that point and I would encourage you to look to engage all those things. engage God in your own heart in your own spirit . just explore that, let him help you to develop that relationship on the inside. then go into Eden and go into the river of life and the waterfalls and the tree of life and the throne of grace, all those things. practice going there, walk there , go into the father’s garden. I do all sorts of exercises to help lead people there. we did some of those in the first conference. in terms of going into Eden and going and walking in the river of life and the waterfalls of heaven and things. and then when you have access to all these relational places. then the responsibility places can then fit into that. I don’t want responsibility without relationship and so I don’t Want a throne without the relationship. because the relationship enables me to do on- what I should do on that throne from God’s perspective and not mine. but we know, once we know our identity that will release the position and that position will release the authority. so follow the journey of relationship which will take you to that place where you can be seated wherever you need to be to do whatever it is God calls you to do.
so the seven spirits of God are assigned by God to help us and they’re very good at helping us with position they are very much more governmental than they are for me relational. Because I don’t need to relate to the seven spirits of God to relate to God. because I relate to God. I have a relationship with him which is personal. but when it comes to governmental things, he has a whole heavenly entourage, staff, associates, which do things for him. angels that are at his call doing things. so there are roles for people and the seven spirits have roles for our sonship and they help us with position. so the spirit of the lord helps with a mandate. So he mandates us, gives us authorization. the spirit of wisdom equips. the spirit of understanding authorizes. the spirit of counsel prepares. The spirit of might reveals. the spirit of knowledge empowers and the spirit the fear the Lord brings us accountability. Now we will look to engage some of these tutoring things in one of the sessions. so we can learn to discern what they- how they can help us. but I want to engage the spirit of the Lord and help you engage the spirit of the Lord because the spirit of the Lord seems to hold it all together for me. when Jesus said the spirit the sovereign lord was upon me, he was talking about the spirit of the Lord one of the seven spirits. he was discipled by the seven spirits. We will look into that. I want to really look at the mandate. do you know the mandate for your position? because if you don’t know that or you don’t know what it is to be mandated for that position. you will never feel comfortable or really feel authorised or you will be reticent, reserved,unforthcoming, restrained, for it. So it is good to engage with that. So I am going to just as the father to to introduce you to the spirit of the Lord. so that the spirit of the lord will begin working with you in the process of the mandate for your position.and then you can be introduced to all the others . because the spirit of the Lord actually introduced me to all the other of the seven spirits. when I first engaged them when I was exploring heaven originally. now I don’t spend a lot of time of them but I’m aware that they help me a lot. because they are designed to help us with that position, with that authority. so when it comes to this, we want to engage relationally with God and then allow God to reveal us. so he wants to hug us he wants to embrace us he wants this to be relational. but he can introduce you to others. when he introduced me too wisdom. it was like a novelty think because it was like wow I learned so much, that I was spending time hanging out there then I thought I hope God isn’t going to be jealous because I am hanging out, because you think stupid things like that, I did anyway. And I was sort of like , I went to the father and said I am spending a lot of time with them. He said we’ll why wouldn’t you. that’s why I appointed her to do this. okay I get it. but it starts with the father and then embracing the father can then help the father lead us. now he can reveal sonship identity destiny position to you just by embrace . cardio geknowsis heart-to-heart impartation. but actually he does also want to introduce us to others who can- are actually appointed to help us in specific ways. so again what I encourage you do is to just close your eyes. if you want to think about embracing the father and the father embracing you hear is a picture there. But as you close your eyes just begin to fix your thoughts on God himself just fix your thoughts set your desire to engage the father in sonship .just begin to think about him embracing you. about the father’s embrace and in that embrace just sense his presence you may feel him embrace you just may feel emotions you may feel a sense of peace or presence , just that heart-to-heart embrace with the father that he would begin to unveil something deeper of your sonship your identity destiny your position . just be open for anything he reveals. it may be thoughts it may be senses or feelings, it is okay. So just spend a few moments just in his embrace allowing those thoughts to be surrounding you and enveloping you. the father may want to take you or led you somewhere, but I just want to ask the father to introduce you to the spirit of the Lord, one of the seven spirits, so that you would become acquainted and aware of what the spirit of the Lord senses, feels like, looks like. he is often the cooler, red is the colour of the spirit of the Lord . that you may feel and in a visual sense, but just be open for that introduction. so the spirit of the Lord can begin to give you a deeper revelation whether it be cognitive or just deep into your spirit -of the mandated position that you have as a son of God in the realms of heaven and just be open for whatever that unveils to you. that again is just a little sound bite. I would encourage do learn to develop that. with desire. do you desire to know your mandated position. the spirit of the Lord has been appointed to help you. so setting your desire on that opens up the realm for you to continually engage that. and you’ll find that your desire draws the spirit the Lord to come around you. and all the other seven spirits will begin to engage you even if you don’t need know how to engage them fully. because the desire draws them. because their been appointed by God to help you come into that position and learn how to do it effectively to fulfil your destiny. and so when you set your desire on it they are drawn by the frequency of your desire. because your desire gives off a sound and a frequency that draws them to you. if you don’t desire to know your position and the mandate you have they won’t come around. so you can draw things to you and the angelic realm are like that. the angelic realm begin to engage us when they feel the frequency of our desire. because they are ministering spirits to help us in our inheritance. but when we don’t have any real desire for our inheritance, you don’t find much angelic activity because they’re not gonna go where they are not really wanted. And of course they’ve been assigned to us. they are guardian angels and they go with us and are keeping us out of trouble a lot of time. but there’s a lot more to the angelic realm that want to engage with us but they are looking for that and sort of connecting with that frequency so they can be drawn to us. so identity of sonship leads to positions of sonship we are a mountain, a sphere of authority we are positioned governmentally in the heavenly realms. we can know our identity and position. we can operate with that authority. our inheritance as sons as positions that are released as we mature as sons. It is like lordship king ship sonship other roles. they are usually before that comes friendship. and most of us have learned to be’s servants of God and stewards of God and we been very faithful stewards most people are doing the things we thought god wanted us to do. but Jesus said to his disciples I no longer call you servants or slaves. you are friends and a friend I’m gonna reveal things too. totally different dimension. and that’s really what God is wooing people into first of all -a friendship relationship in which he can start to reveal things, that then will lead onto all the other things. so we don’t get stuck in friendship. friendship then takes us into the lordship position where he endues us with authority to operate under his kingship. so a Lord operates differently than a king. and you get that in the Lord of the rings. and in the third one its the return of the King. Where as before that was the Lord of these different places. Gondore was the place where they had a Lord. Now he wasn’t the right Lord but he was there until the king returned and in that book when the king returned you don’t sort of get it in the unless you have seen the expanded film 59:30
but if you read the book he comes with healing, he comes with a restoration of things. just like jesus does to restore things. so he wants us to mature. those positions carry the responsibility to fulfil the purpose that we are learning to be in. Jesus came of age and he discovered his destiny.that father’s business. he wants us to find that for ourselves. so he wants us to know intimacy so we can discover sonship in relationship and eventually we will start to be involved in the family business of heaven and earth and creation. and that is exciting there is so much more beyond what you can possibly imagine or think. there was for me and I’m exploring things now which were beyond beyond what I could have imagined or thought. and I know there is going to be even more than that beyond that. the responsibility is not a heavy burden to bear .with expectations that will create obligations. if were yoked to Jesus he bears the weight. his yoke is easy and his burden is light. so if you are ever feeling heavy and oppressed you know it does not come from God. sometimes you can feel unsettled and that can be from God. because he will unsettle you in the place you are if he doesn’t want you to be there anymore. If its time to get out of the nest. you know when the mother eagle wants to get the Eagles out of the nest, it is not, we’ll let me give you a flying lesson. it’s like you out you go. Now they don’t obviously push the Eagles out of the nest when their first hatched from the egg. they have to be fed and grown to let wings are strong enough and they got all their downy fur gone and stuff and now they got proper wings. now they know , she knows that when they get a thermal they will be able to fly. but there pushed out of the nest. so god knows sometimes that we need to be stirred spirit to action because we tend to get comfortable and there’s more for us so he doesn’t want us to be comfortable where we are if there’s more. and he knows when those occasions need to take place.
so we have this authority as sons to embrace creation and outwork all the things he did. So Ephesians 2:6 says and has raised us up with him and seated us with him in heavenly places in Christ. so that, there is a purpose to that . it isn’t just great we got a throne and we put our feet up and enjoy the high life when all the angels are going to come around and do everything for us. It is not like that . it is a no this has a purpose. so that in the ages to come he might show the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ .so there is a sense here where there is- this is not just for this time but what we do in this time is preparing for ages of time to come. whatever that means there’s more of it. but being seated is the introduction into pursuing whatever that is gonna lead us into. so where are we positioned in the heavens? Zechariah 3:7 shows this sort of process. thus says the Lord of hosts if you will walk in my ways , that is what we do here. were learning to walk in his ways as Jesus walked. being outworking heaven in the earth just walking in his ways and most people learn to do that as a steward. it’s like God gives us assignments he gives us ministry, he gives us things do. He gives us gifts and he wants us to use them. and we learn to do that faithfully here. but then there’s a- and if you will perform my service. now think of this as a priest, because this is the high priest that we are talking about. Joshua the high priest is being talked to. He had a role which was called service. now service is what we call worship. in Romans 12:2 your spiritual service of worship which was actually our outworking our destiny. so there is a sense where as we begin to operate in the priestly function. it will open up things where we can begin to operate God’s purposes in the realms of heaven. and that’s where we first get a throne and then we begin to rule. then you will have charge-govern the house. will have charge of the house . so when we are seated then we begin to rule- us and part of the house of the Lord. Because the mountain of the house of the Lord encompasses the whole of God’s purposes. and have charge of my courts. have charge of the courts that means we have responsibility in the courts of heaven and roles to play there. mostly at the moment angels are taking responsibility in those places, because not many people have learned to go there.
but the more and more people who do, the more and more roles they will take and the more and more we will have charge of those things. but there is a process of maturity there which by the time we got charge of the courts were not going to use them wrongly. we will use them in love for the right purposes. and then beyond that I will grant you free access among these who are standing here who were standing and you could sort the throne room and all the other places the temple the different places of the realms of heaven the councils of heaven we will have access to stand there. And you will find on your journey that you may get what I call forerunner experiences . they are an encounter that opens up a possibility that you can just necessary go straight back to. But it inspires you to pursue. so when I learned to engage the courts of heaven. I was taken there, shown them and once I was aware of them, then my spirit drew me towards the ones I need to pursue.
so I first learn about the mobile call and using the court of accusation to deal with things there but I was show the chancelors court and the court of scribes and the court kings and a few of the others and in being shown it sort of stirred my desire, it stirred my desire to want to engage. so that in itself then drew me to pursue and I then was introduced to wisdom and wisdom is there to help us rule. all the governmental stuff, wisdom you read about her in Proverbs 8 and Proverbs 9 and she is there calling to the sons of men to come because she helps kings nobles and princes to rule and reign and to govern and to administrate. so there is a process of maturity that we go through. so we govern and rule the house- when we do that? We’ll from our position of authority. 106
so heaven is really based in a Tabernacle format. so there is the Tabernacle. so the Tabernacle on earth was a reflection of the tabernacle in heaven but actually heaven itself is based in those spheres or governmental layers if you like or spheres of government. so kingdom of the earth we are servant, a steward and a friend. we then cross beyond the veil into the outer court and engage in lordship .that’s where our mountain is. we can engage that, we then can begin to learn to govern, to keep the laws , the charges all those things in the kingdom of God area. That is where the- several courts are in that. The court of the strategy, the court of the angels and the mobile court and then as you mature you go through the veil of the truth, then you can enter the inner court and then you operate in kingship and in kingship you then start to take charge of the courts and use your authority to legislate and govern. then you then can go through the veil of the life, the holy of holies in a sense in the kingship and sonship area at a different level and eventually start to access some of the courts in the heaven of heavens. now that might seem quite complicated. I didn’t understanding any of that. I just went to all those places and had no idea where they were. but I went back, so I mapped it out. and I discovered where they were and how to get there, then I walked there and then I went to those places and now I can go to any those places whenever I need to go. heaven is- has different levels of authority within it and you will find different things happen within those levels of authority that we all have access to. and God wants us to be enthroned there. so Psalm 89:14 righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne, mercy and lovingkindness and truth go before your face. that is how we need to rule. that’s how we need to govern. That is how we need to have charge of the courts, in righteousness and justice, basically in love .so all government must be love focused. if it isn’t, it isn’t God’s government. and then we have this thing psalm 45:6 your throne of God is forever and ever, the sceptre of your righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom. there is a throne, we have a throne we get a thing. so the key is, and let us finish with this- who is on the throne of your life? who is in charge of your life? because if you are then heaven is never gonna recognise your position. even though you have it, it won’t recognise it and you have no authority there. so it’s like when he is on the throne of my life- if I had to describe it in a way, then I can rule in him .is like my- it is not that I don’t govern, but I govern in the relationship with him – in him. I surrender and it gives me more authority than I could ever have in my own strength. it sounds counterintuitive but actually the reality is I give up authority and I get more. and that’s how it works. and he wants us to surrender so that we can rule in the authority that- that surrender brings in the realms of heaven so that he can invest us with more and more and position us there seated in heavenly places, if that makes sense.