We are continuing with engaging God this four session series on ketubah is probably one of the most important that I’ve done for us moving forward in the purposes of God individually and corporately. Were on a pathway of relationship and this is the end of that pathway but will lead us into the pathway of responsibility, but we learned that heaven is flowing through us as we are a gateway of our spirit soul body to flow around the world to bring life wherever it goes.
And in the next set section we are going to learn about deeper relationship with God and discover there is so much more for us to experience. And as we open our first Love gate and invite God’s presence. Jesus is knocking, he wants us to open we invite him to be on the throne of our lives we have that river of life flowing. That is to flow through all our gateways. And as we had been looking at gateways, we have looked at understanding the gateways using the court of accusation to clean and cleanse our gateways, various things in cleansing our gateways using communion in that process. And now we are on the four chambers of the heart as we’ve seen. As we deal with familiar spirits then we have access to a deeper relationship with God and we are going to look at the garden of our heart, the dance floor, soaking room bridal chamber.
But to do that we need an understanding of the ketubah the marriage relationship. Just to recap God does not choose us on the basis of our good works our past performance or history, just as well for most of us. Actually, he chooses us in spite of all that. Because he has an eternal destiny for every single person in this room in relationship with him.
Romans 5:10 if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his son Jesus on the cross much more having been reconciled shall be saved by his life. That word saved has a full perspective of wholeness provision protection health forgiveness. We will be saved in an ongoing relationship because he’s chosen us.
1 Corinthians 1:27 for God who has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen. The things which are not so that he may nullify the things that are so that no man may boast before God.
It is all about God, we can’t do anything in our own strength, but if we yield he’s chosen weak things don’t have to be strong. Our strength comes from him we just have to yield to his purpose in our lives to our destiny. So God desires a marriage relationship with us. A ketubah is a marriage contract made under a Huppah or a covering cloud of God’s presence.
Jesus went to the cross to prepare a place for us. Read about that in John 14- a marriage chamber in us of relationship. He was resurrected and he came back so that we can have a wedding. A place where we can engage in a deeper relationship with God, ongoing. To make a ketubah we need to understand God’s promises and purpose. And we looked at lots of those last week. The love letter written in the word of God to us by Jesus that describes who he is and all he has done for us. We need to understand the New Covenant which becomes the basis of our ketubah.
Our ketubah needs to be made in light of our destiny scroll, that which was formed in God’s heart and agreed with our spirit in eternity.
We need to align what we believe about God in our lives with that eternal perspective that comes from God.
Psalm 139:16 your eyes have seen my unformed substance in your book were all written the days that were ordained for me when as yet there was not one of them. so everything has been prepared. the question is will we come into alignment with it. Verse 17 how precious also are your thoughts to me oh God, had vast is the some of them.
As we engage with God in deeper intimacy, the more that vast some of his thoughts about us get reveal day by day. Every day he will reveal more of our purpose and God’s plan for us and the relationship and the intimacy if we engage him.
It says in the word of God that if we draw near to God, he will draw near to us. Because he’s already drawn near and has made the invitation for us to draw near to him which he always responds to.
We can find our true identity and have progressive revelation of our blueprint or our scroll for our lives. Every day he will reveal something new, he will show us what it is and our purpose for each day if we will surrender and submit to it and engage him for it.
We can produce our ketubah our marriage contract from that context. The ketubah is about our expectations of our relationship with God in that marriage and our destiny and purpose within that relationship. We need to know what our expectations are.
Because if it’s black and not white then we are going every day in a sense with not that light revealed.
God wants us to be children of light as he is light so that revelation of that light can be revealed. But it comes in relationship.
In relationship we seek first his kingdom and righteousness which means out of our first Love for him and then all God promises become available to us. The promises of God become available to us in relationship and in fulfilling our destiny, not to do what we want.
That is the pathway that the enemy offered to Adam and Eve and they accepted it. It is the pathway we’ve all been on separated from God. God wants to restore us to the pathway of the tree of life, not the pathway of the tree of the knowledge good and evil.
So, we are in him and were in his name therefore we have the power of attorney to operate as his children as co- heirs and joint heirs in the kingdom of God.
Genesis 1:28 which was essentially the mandate that was given to Adam and Eve. God blessed them, God said to them be fruitful multiply, fill the earth subdue and rule. That is still the mandate we have today as his children. That mandate forms the basis of our expectations. So, we are blessed by God so we can expect him to empower us to succeed and prosper to the highest level.
What is the highest level for us individually, it is all different because we’re all uniquely made with a purpose. The highest level for each of us is to fulfill the destiny that God has given us. And he will empower us to do that.
So, the ketubah becomes the basis of that covenant exchange, where God gives us everything we need, if we give our lives to him to fulfill our destiny.
We can trade into that and expect a response. So whenever we have need of anything from God to fulfill his purpose and so that we can outwork that, he will give it to us, if we believe it and we operate in faith according to it.
So, we trust him by surrendering to our destiny. He provides protects empowers and blesses us to prosper and succeed to the highest level.
So what do we put into our ketubah? We put in our ketubah everything that will bring the fulfillment of our eternal destiny. It is the expectation of the availability of all the resources necessary to enable us to fulfill God’s purpose on a daily basis.
It then becomes the foundational truth and reality from which we live.
We live according to it so we then can frame our lives in accordance with those expectations those hopes. And then we will see that faith becomes the substance of those hopes.
Our ketubah will enable us to rule in life and not be subject to the circumstances around us or under them. So, it is absolutely important that we spend time engaging God about this ketubah. Spend time with him seek God about it ask him what is it that I should put in this relationship, this marriage contract.
So, then that will form the basis of what you live. So, formulate it, and then we can become joined to him in the New Covenant marriage relationship.
Now most of us may have an inkling of some of this. And you may have done this sort of anyway in the things you been doing but not done it specifically.
So, you have been living in the benefit of the things that you come into agreement with in your own mind and with God’s heart. Now he wants you to be more specific now, because he has more things for us to do.
So, we are going to look at our corporate ketubah. The example of our draft ekklesia ketubah which were working on at the moment. I am going to show some of my personal example of the ketubah I wrote.
We are going to learn how to use that ketubah to frame our lives and then how to frame or create our reality in alignment with our destiny. That’s what God wants us to do.
So, as a church, we have a blueprint. That blueprint was given to us by God. We use that blueprint to establish our church ketubah. We use the expectations of God, so we can fulfill our blueprint and bring glory to God as heirs’, co-heirs and sons of God. So, that’s our church blueprint I am not going to go into that today, but it’s not a flat two-dimensional picture. You need to look into it and if you look into it, you’ll see there is a foundation on which we build which is the heavenly bench of three father-son and spirit. that on that foundation we have a bench of three, the government of heaven on earth. We have a bench of seven we have seven mountain governmental spheres, and we have our bench of 12 and its increasing and widening because there is no end to the increase of his government. So, we form our ketubah on the basis of that. So, our church contract has certain scriptural expectations and there are lots of Bible scriptures you could use there. Here is just a few of them.
Matthew 18:20 two or three gathered he’ll be there. we need to hold him to that. So he is here right now, his presence is here differently from just being anywhere else, because we gather with an expectation.
Psalm 22:3 he will inhabit our praises. so he will come and fill the praises and that will open up a realm for us to experience.
Matthew 16:18 the gates of hell will not prevail against us the promise.
2 Corinthians 9:8 he will provide enough grace for all our needs and abundance for all the good deeds that he has prepared for us to do. So, grace is his divine enabling power.
Genesis 28:18 to live under an open heaven in the overlap of heaven and earth, an expectation. We can also use God’s prophetic words and revelation to us to remind him of them in our ketubah, because he spoken so many prophetic words to us over the years. We need to use those and bring that expectation of fulfillment.
So, the promise of six spiritual rivers flowing out of heaven that we can engage. Whenever we gather and those six spiritual rivers flow out from over the stage and flow into the room. If you don’t know what they are you can go back and look at some of the teaching on it. But those are things we can experience. God’s presence will be constantly with us. Part of our ketubah our gatherings will be an open heaven and angelic landing strip. Again, prophetically spoken to us.
The presence of the four angels of the new order and the seven spirits of God and the cloud of witnesses to be a place where dreams visions and blueprints of destiny are released.
There will be an increasing intimacy in our relationship with God. God will enable the success of our blueprint. God will provide and supply all resources needed to fulfill our blueprint. God will provide health safety and protection. God’s faithfulness will be seen.
Now we are working and developing these into a thing that, we were going to have marriage ceremony with. And so, these are people’s expectations when we gather, we ask okay what we should put in our ketubah. And these were some of the things people felt.
God’s faithfulness will be seen. God’s favor blessings will be released. God will provide all the revelation we need to fulfill what were called to do. There will be guidance and direction revelation through multiple witnesses of confirmation not just one person. God will honor our eternal destiny, so that all things will be possible to him who believes. That God will trust us with? We can have lots of things in there. God will hear us when we speak. God will give us wisdom we were supernatural power and authority we will have an environment that enables constant growth and fruitfulness.
Transformational power will be available in our environment. God will partner with us to bring life, to heal the sick, to raise the dead. Salvation is will be released, we will receive a ring of sonship authority to rule over creation. We will be the hand and not the tail. The frequencies of heaven will be emanating from God and will open access to multiple dimensions earth and all created dimensions will be our inheritance. We will be an embassy of heaven where everything we do will create the atmosphere. Repentance, health, healing, reach beyond our physical footprint to other parts of the world. We will be part of raising up mature sons, the Joshua generation, with the ability to access all areas of the heavenly realms of heaven government, the mountains, the thrones and the spheres of government that we need to have charge of. The authority to release and legislate God’s laws from the heavenly realms will have access to same/get back things have been robbed and that we will be able to fulfil our part in establishing and administering a city of refuge, for what he called us to do is have the ability to access the Ark of God and be a representation of the four faces of God. the Lionel Ziegler man in kingly prophetic apostolic priestly government the ability to access God’s are in eternity. The ability to access the river of life, the tree of life, the throne of grace, the garden of God and the judgement seat. To be a fertile place where gifts of the Spirit are manifested and the fruit of the Spirit grows. To see kingdom manifestations of health. So salvation, power, signs and wonders to access all the resources necessary to be an apostolic resource. The Joshua generation is to operate in legislative government, to live under the law of father and sonship. With the laws of inheritance, restitution, recognition are in operation.