We are in the time of the Parousia (the presence of the Lord); and just as He walked in the midst of the people of Jerusalem in His day without their recognizing Him, you too may not be able to recognize him.
He can move in your midst without your seeing Him, or even knowing that He is there, unless the Lord reveals this to you.
He is there with you even if you do not recognized it, so turn your focus onto Him and know that He is there with you.
This is why we must take the initiative, and open our spirit to Him, and know He is with us right now, and believe to become aware of Him.
The revelation you need now is to keep your spirit open to Him, learning how to be moving in Him, because there will be appearances of the Lord to us in this time, when He suddenly appears in our midst. It will be just as when He came suddenly into the temple in the middle of the Feast of Tabernacles: and they became amazed as they listened to Him (John 2:13–25).
The Lord is appearing and will continue to appear to His people. We should look for and anticipate it. We are living in the time of His presence, and there should be a breakthrough upon our senses, not only our spirit and soul, but also the five senses of our body.
In the Old Testament it was very simple: when God’s presence was in the cloud, the children of Israel would know something was about to happen.
No amount of His manifestation will get through to you if you are looking the wrong way; it is how you focus. Because what your focus is on is what becomes real to you.
It is easy for one’s life to get out of focus. You can focus on the past until you are carrying the burdens of yesteryear on your shoulders, and that makes a grievous load. You stumble because the present cannot be seen properly when you are living with the burdens of the past.
You can also focus on the future, borrowing tomorrow’s troubles ahead of time, “What’s going to happen to me?” Jesus said not to worry about the future. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Matthew 6:34.
The Scriptures say that we are running with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus who is the Author and Finisher of our faith (Hebrews 12:1, 2); and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time.… Hebrews 9:28.
Those who see Him don’t have their focus on the passing scene, the past or the future; but they have an expectation: momentarily expecting the Lord to reveal Himself.
The focus is on the unseen. By faith Moses endured, as seeing Him who is invisible. Hebrews 11:27. Moses’ focus was not on the Israelites he was leading through the wilderness, but on the Lord. He could endure because he was seeing Him who is invisible. When he got his focus upon the Israelites, he got in trouble.
The Lord will appear, but not to those who are not focused on Him. The appearances and visitations of the Lord will be very real to those who are focused on Him rather than on the past, future, or troubles of the present. It’s an expression of your entire spirit, your whole being focused on the Lord.
If you focus a pure love on the Lord, everything else will become vague and indistinct; and the devil can’t use that against you, he can only use what you are focusing on.
Therefore, if you focus on the Lord the enemy has lost all the power of circumstances that he can affect you with.
He won’t be able to use the tribulations or the troubles that are coming upon us in these last days to discourage us, and you will be so full of Joy, that it will cause revival to take place in your midst, as people will begin to be attracted by the presence of God in your life.
Because you focus on Him, nothing else can be effective against you. To them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. Hebrew 9:28. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself.… I John 3:3.
There’s a readiness in our spirits that is wrought, not because we are diligently battling circumstances but because our focus is on the Lord.
A prize fighter doesn’t try to watch the dancing feet or hands of his opponent, but his eyes, so he can anticipate the punch by the telegraph system of the other man’s eyes.
But we don’t have to focus on the enemy because he is already defeated.
So when our focus is on the Lord, the tricks of the enemy are frustrated because we can anticipate them, because we are filled with His Spirit. They don’t affect us because our eyes are on the Lord.
I believe that the Lord wants us to come to the place where we love Christ so deeply, with a love beyond any human love that our focus of everything else blanks out. We won’t hear what the devil is saying or what’s going on around us; all we’ll hear is the sweetness of our Lord in our communion with Him. This should be real to us.
If love is true on a natural plane, how much more should it be on the spiritual plane. This is the focus we are to have, with our hearts wholly set upon the Lord with a fantastic love.
The Song of Solomon is a story of Solomon and his true love. This is how the Lord looks upon us, having loved us; and the we love Him back with the divine love imparted in our spirit.
The intensity and the focus of our love leads us until we say of our love, “He’s the fairest of ten-thousand.”
Everything else fades in the focus of our love.
We should look upon this end-time walk with God as a love affair with the Lord.
All our focus should be on Him and our desire for Him to appear, wanting Him to be real to us.
We should really desire for a special meeting with the Lord, a special revelation of Him, of a walk with God where breakthrough’s aren’t victories that are won over circumstances but are meetings with God, times that the Lord appears and is real to us.
In a walk with God the things that are most vivid in my mind are not the tests or problems but the meetings with the Lord.
The Tabernacle was called the tent of meeting because the people went there to meet God. It was never called the tent of sacrifice, though many sacrifices were made. When the children of Israel went to meet God, they met Him in that tent of meeting.
Do you find yourself wanting to love the Lord, to fall in love with Him all over again, so that He becomes more real to you than the circumstances you are going through?
You’ve lost everything if your walk with God becomes doctrines, spiritual battles, and victories over circumstances, abilities or accomplishments. You’ve missed it then, because it’s a walk with the Lord. The breakthroughs are actually breakthroughs to meetings with God.
This is the day of His revelation, the Parousia, and our motivation should not be, “God, help me. I’m in a corner and I must have help.” The Lord can break through for everyone.
Do not seek God to get out of a situation but seek Him to be revealed to your heart. Take down the walls to God’s revelation so that you seek the Lord with all your heart for Him to be revealed to you.
The Lord is not present not to just deliver you from trouble but to deliver you from the walls that are up to prevent you from walking more closely with Him.
We’ve lost it all if it boils down to the gifts being used only to overcome circumstances and heal the sick. I don’t think that was the purpose of the gifts in the New Testament.
As the disciples operated in the gifts of the Spirit, they exalted the Lord Jesus Christ.
In the healing of the lame man at the temple in Acts 3, Peter said, “Why do you look on us as though by our power or holiness we made this man whole?” and he exalted Jesus Christ.
There was never a miracle or a sermon that did not bring a revelation of the Lord. Although the religious leaders would say, “Don’t talk about Him anymore,” they perceived that these men had been with Jesus. It was a revelation and a walk with God.
This walk with God isn’t doctrines, a new move of prophecy, revelation or people coming into ministries. You’ve missed it if this is your thinking because it will bog down to some ambitious exercise of spiritual things, but this is a walk with the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord, the Head of the Body, is revealing Himself through us and to us, and then through us to others.
There is something in our spirits that is so hungry, that when the living Word comes it hits a depth of comprehension beyond reason—Deep calleth unto deep, is the way the psalmist puts it in Psalms 42:7.
Wherever we are, the cry of our hearts is to have a meeting with the Lord. Moses had that cry in his heart. When God met him he could have asked for many things: for a good plumbing system, for a better food supply. Wandering through the wilderness created many problems, but when he came before the Lord on the mountain he had only one desire.… I beseech thee, shew me thy glory. Exodus 33:18. Isn’t that what we’re crying out for? That will speed things up, in our spiritual growth and ministry.
Instead of worrying about how efficiently you’re moving in a gift or ministry, be more concerned about the revelation of the Lord to your heart.
Everything is enhanced by the proximity of the Lord and the communion you have with Him. Whether you seem to have a gift or not, it will work just by knowing the Lord.
Good word!