We have a full chronology of what has come so far in the “Unfolding,” the recent revelation teaching of the Kingdom. It is not so important that we try to make a history of it; however, the sequence of steps in this revelation is important, because they are working miracle changes wherever they are applied. They are so outstanding that the 1951 breakthrough into what we later called “the walk” was minor compared to the magnitude of this. We are seeing prophets and seer ministries come forth; people are beginning to see and to function in the Spirit.
Since the beginning, only a handful have walked in revelation, discernment, gifts, and the ministry that God has brought forth. Now we are watching an amazing expansion of the miracle ministry of the seer priest coming forth, and with it the judgments and the other creative things that are coming. This means a great shift in our services, because the prophets are not speaking or exhorting so much as the priests are seeing and creating by impartation in their ministry. This did not seem to make much sense until we understood the difference between what was the Church Age and what is the Kingdom. The Church Age was largely an age of preaching and evangelism. The Kingdom is related to officiating before the Lord as priests who minister. With the laying on of hands, they can impart. Even in the Old Testament, priests could lay hands on an animal and impart to it the sins of the person who brought that animal (Leviticus 4:1–35). The priesthood is the greatest ministry of impartation there ever was.
This is why our greatest battle for the past years has been with transference, where witchcraft, with its counterpart of negative transference, was fighting what we were going to do in the ministry of impartation. Satan anticipated this day, and so the false, the Ishmael, came before the true. Therefore, we fought the difficult battle that was coming against impartation until this past summer, which was the turning point. Now impartation by the people of God will be so great that the witchcraft will wither and die. We will see a complete defeat of everything we have warred against.
Now we are not preaching so much as we are taking a person by the hand and leading him into becoming something in God. This impartation now is in ways that we have never known before. This is so important for you to receive. Impartation may start in a humble way. You say, “I’m not educated. I don’t know very much.” Who said anything about your head? It is your heart. It is living in one another’s hearts that has opened this up. This is pure impartation that is coming. Stop trying to reason your way into it, and let God minister you into it through your brother and sister.
What is the key of impartation? Just look at the recent history of it. How much has come by Communion? Forty, fifty, or more of us eat the bread and drink the wine of Communion together, and we receive something that cannot be explained. Communion was never like this before. Now we all lay hands on one another and bless each other. Before we wondered, “Who can lay hands on the people? Maybe an elder or apostle could.” At the beginning we did not know who could lay hands on whom. But now we meet together and bless and impart to one another—the Body is actually coming together, so that it may make increase of itself in love through that which every joint supplies (Ephesians 4:15–16).
For the first time we have true Body ministry, because for the first time we are becoming one; and this is just in its beginning stages. We are just beginning to explore oneness. The Kingdom of God is relationships—how many times have we heard this in the Word that has come! As we move on into this step, we will look back at the preliminary teaching that has come to us for the past five or six years, and at the devastation, and we will thank God for it.
Now let me explain why we had to have devastation. In the Old Testament, the Law was given to make people aware of their sin. But the Law never made anyone righteous. However, the Law did bring the knowledge of our need of righteousness. Christ came to bring righteousness (Romans 3:19–24; 8:3–4; Galatians 2:16–21). How do we get to the end of the flesh and self and self-righteousness and get into the righteousness of God? He has to devastate us. Devastation, or the chastening of the Lord, never produces righteousness; but it leads us to become a partaker of His righteousness (Hebrews 12:9–10). Now we cannot have the Law to bring us under condemnation, but we do have devastation to bring us into appropriation.
Impart and appropriate; this is how we heal one another. You say, “Appropriation? Oh, do I need it! I’ve been so devastated, I’m at the end of myself! What’ll I do?” There is nothing you can do. You have been brought to that place; so you simply stand in faith, someone lays hands on you, and you receive it.
Devastation must lead to impartation, or it is pointless.
If there is no point in God chastening a person, why doesn’t God let him go on and do the best that he can? Why did God devastate the old ways of doing things in our churches and in everything else we were doing? Because an age is ending. We have heard this often in the Living Word, but who wanted to believe it? Who wanted to believe that we had come to a threshold of the Kingdom in that seven-year period foreseen in vision? The day that seven-year period ended was December 13, 1979. People said, “Well, the Kingdom didn’t come.” It did come! We passed over into phases of it without realizing we had passed over the boundary line of an age. We didn’t realize it! It was not long until the line was drawn, and we saw the end of illusion; and it happened. We saw the separation of the tares and the wheat, and the many things that took place (Matthew 13:30). We walked through things that could not have been produced by anything else but the hand of God bringing them forth. Devastation had to come because God was not well-pleased that we continue on, locked into the observances and the ways of ministry and worship that belonged to a former age He was ready to lead us and to establish us in a new realm.
Why am I reviewing all of this? Because I think that we should be devoted as much as we can, day and night, to enter into this. If you miss it now, it will fade in your mind. But if you get into oneness, it will be forever. It is for the whole Kingdom. Now how are we going to do this? First, because we were so sovereignly led, let’s go back and listen to the Word that God was speaking during the “Unfolding.” Let’s pick up everything we can from the tapes of those services. Some of the services have been summarized because the whole procedure of those services was different.
Many times after a Word came, we would meet together and do nothing but sit and talk. Then the Lord would direct us and we would move in and minister to one another. The services were totally without the form that we were used to. A pastor from one of the outlying churches wrote that the people were beginning to break down all their differences, but they no longer wanted to have formal church services.
People’s hearts are yearning for something more. Rather than having just formal services, we have been sitting and talking informally together to find out what is happening; and then we begin to impart to one another to become and to do what God is saying.
We remember what it was like as the “Unfolding” began to break through upon us. We saw no difference between the fathers and the children in the way we all related (Malachi 4:6).
When we left one area to go to another, we continued to relate that way. The enemy had been working against this, but he could not break the oneness that was flowing. Those who saw it were amazed at the way it flowed. It did not make any difference how old or how young anyone was, or who they were. People who had been withdrawn for months came in and started moving in God immediately. I have never seen God heal without scars as fast as He did.
The reason for this is that there is such an impartation, such a new level in the Word that is coming, that you almost have to catch up on it and know that it comes in a sequence of experiences. The “Unfolding” is like an experience; it is like a thing of becoming. And I believe this is scriptural. We remember how Ezekiel went out and looked at the dry bones; and when he began to prophesy, the bones came together. That was good unity; but then the Lord stirred him to prophesy again, and the wind of the Spirit kept moving. It was quite a step from being a dry bone to becoming part of the army, but it came in stages of the Spirit moving (Ezekiel 37:1–10). I think that is what we were doing. We saw God devastate us; I think He even scraped our bones. Then He began to bring the healing, and then the miracle.
What is happening is so fantastic that we will consider our devastation to be probably the most economical move God ever made to produce the army of the Lord. Never has so little accomplished so much. You say, “When I was devastated, I thought it was a big thing.” Yes, but it is not to be compared with the glory that will be revealed in us (Romans 8:18). The suffering was to be endured because it was part of the process that led us to appropriation.
What can happen out of a service in which we sit around and talk about the Word and minister what has come? This is going to be our experience more than we realize.
Formality will disappear from our services, and they will go entirely into a realm of creativity. To come to service will be to become something. To come is to become.
A group of ministers is being established on the level of prophet-seers who can do anything that I can do, or more. This is the fulfillment of a vision and a Word of promise that God gave.
The message “Oneness is Forever” would do well to read first, and then go back and read everything else. It teaches you clearly to not try first to solve problems, because problems or confronting one another is still on an individual basis, one individual dealing with another. It is usually not in oneness. Oneness has only one perfect solution to all problems, and that is the creativity of God. If we are one in Him, the battle is already won. Problems seem to disappear in the oneness. We will have to get into this oneness. We have heard this again and again, but now we will understand it and know how to live in it. This step will be as real to us as our first step in 1951, when we used to lay hands on one another and prophesy a little bit. Then we would stand back, not really knowing fully what we were doing; but it worked. And this step will work too, because it is the step whereby the fullness of God will be ministered to every member of the Body.
We will get into this step so much that we will understand how we change. When the people in Haiku and in Honolulu were ministering to me, who changed the most? Did I change, or did they? We all changed! We become one and we are effective when our focus is on one thing or one person.
The Lord had told us to declare a fast from praying for ourselves for one month. Those who followed this grew more in one month than they ever had in their lives. They changed! The word “grow” makes us think of a process but our growth has been more a miracle, instant change.
How do we move ahead in this step? We bless each other; we minister to each other. I would give a Word, and the people would hear it and minister it back to me and make it more real to me, because that was what God wanted. He wanted me to minister a Word to them, so that they would minister a Word back to me and we would all simultaneously become what the Word had set before us. We all would become it instantly.
This is the step we are ready for. This is worth everything. I could walk away from the churches I have worked with half my life without further concern, because this step is more effective than any previous steps. You could go out on a street corner and lay hands on a few people and do more than what was done in twenty years in some churches. This is the miracle level of God. But God does not want you to do that because you wish to be independent; that would not be oneness. He is trying to bring all of His inheritance together in one (John 17:20–23; Ephesians 1:18–23). Everything that we have always wanted to believe, as related to Body ministry, will have its reality and fulfillment in this oneness. We will see the amazing fulfillment of this Scripture when we become one in Christ: There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1.
As you listen to the tapes of the services of the “Unfolding,” some of the principles and proverbs will amaze you. Here are some of these Kingdom Proverbs which speak of our war against separateness.
You have to win your battle of dedication against separateness before you can have the appropriation of oneness.
Let me explain the depth of the wisdom of this. It is frightening, because it is so true. You decide, “Well, I’m going to believe for oneness.” Then you must first enter into a dedication that you will not be separate from your brother. Meanwhile, you will have little of the benefits and wonder of oneness; you will have turmoil. Decide to be one and declare your dedication against separateness, and you will be torn. But this is the way to become one. You must win your battle of dedication against separateness before you can have appropriation of oneness.
The Scripture says, “Draw me, and I will run after thee” (Song of Solomon 1:4). But listen to this: Draw me with love, and I will run after thee. Draw me without love, and I will flee from you; and then you will accuse me of withdrawal.
Isn’t this true? We are getting ready to really be one, and we must face the fact that it is working by impartation. But the dedication side of it is your determination not to be separated from your brother or your sister or the Lord, anymore. You are determined! Then you go through a shaking.
Draw me with love and I will run after thee. Draw me without love, and I will flee from you; and then you will accuse me of withdrawal, because any ministry without love repels more than it draws.
Fear fills the vacuum where there is no love and repels by insecurity or intimidation, as much as love and faith ever attract.
Fear will fill the vacuum where there is no love. If you do not have love, fear will fill that vacuum. This is exactly what happens. And then it repels by insecurity or intimidation as much as love and faith attract.
Fear and insecurity is an appetite that is never satisfied, no matter how much reassurance is fed to satisfy it.
Have you ever seen that happen to someone? If someone has faith, you speak to him and he responds. If you say the same thing to someone who is fearful and insecure, you could tell him a thousand times and he still would not get it. Fear and insecurity is an appetite, a gnawing appetite that is never satisfied no matter how much reassurance is fed to satisfy it. If there is fear and insecurity, a husband can tell his wife a thousand times a night, “I love you,” and she will not believe it the next morning. But where there is faith and love, he may not even have to say it (I John 4:18, KJV).
Fear is the disease that cannot be cured by the salve of reason. It must be exorcised as though it were a devil that possessed you.
Do you realize that we are talking about the fears that motivate people? Fear is the disease that cannot be cured by the salve of reason; it must be exorcised as though it were a devil that possessed you.
One word sustains faith; the same word spoken a thousand times does not quell fear.
We have yet to realize that our fears are living lies. We must come to the place where we say, “I’m not going to fear. Though a host encamp against me, my heart will not fear” (Psalm 27:3). “I am one with the Lord.” We are going to do exploits but we are not going to do them as long as we are fearful in heart. We will not do the greater works until we come out of that fear, that insecurity. Let’s get out of it.
I can say a thousand times, “Everything’s all right”; but you won’t ever believe it if you are fearful. Your fears almost have to be cast out as if they were a devil.
If we do not eliminate fear and establish faith, the same ministry must be repeated continuously.
Have you ever noticed that you can minister to someone and he receives it? But you can minister the same thing to someone else, and you have to do it over again and again, time after time. You may still be working at it five years later. Why? Because if you do not eliminate fear and establish faith, that same ministry must be repeated continuously.
The root of fear makes temporary any ministry of deliverance.
Don’t minister faith to someone without ministering to him a deliverance from fear, because fear is the sand in the heart that no one can build on, not even God. The first flood will wash away the Word.
Don’t expect to minister faith to someone who has not had a deliverance from fear. If you do, you create a situation where the faith and the fear wipe each other out. They neutralize each other, and you wind up with a vacuum, neither good nor bad; nothing happens. But if you want faith to really work, get rid of the fear first; then minister the faith, and that faith will move mountains. Every day we are learning principles that we never knew before. They are such mysteries and wonders of the Kingdom; but they really work miracle changes in us.
Fear and unbelief necessitate that all “deliverances” be repeated and frequent; such deliverances are never permanent.
Do you want to change? First, determine that you will not listen to one tape with fear or reservation in your heart. Lay an axe to the root of it! Be filled with faith! Hear with faith! Miracles are going to happen to us because we are going to get rid of the conditioning which unbelief and fear have made.
Fear is a root that only the axe of faith can sever.
Let’s lay the axe to the root. Let’s start believing. Let’s have faith to believe that we can deal with one another’s fears and intimidation, all our negative conditionings, all of the other things that must go. Do you realize that I am talking about a problem that you have had? The Kingdom is forever; so whatever we are to have in God, let’s get it and keep it and walk in it from now on. And the only way to keep from repeatedly losing it is to uproot the fear and unbelief from your heart first. This is so important.
The defensive bluster of fear may often resemble the boldness of faith.
Fear is a fire in the heart that the waters of counsel cannot put out. It is a fire that must be fought with fire-the fire of miracle faith.
Oh, the fearful hearts must be delivered! We must fight fire with fire! Do not try to counsel people and soothe them, because that water will not put out this fire. It will take a miracle fire of faith to put out the fires of fear.
If faith is a miracle appropriation to your heart, then a deliverance from unbelief or fear must likewise be a miracle uprooting.
One is an impartation; the other is an uprooting. Faith is imparted; fear must be uprooted. Fear is a devilish and deep root in the heart.
Fear is a reaction to what I see when I don’t believe. Looking at things without faith causes most of our problems.
Fear is a convulsive conclusion to circumstances viewed without faith.
I am through being troubled. I am determined that I will be moved only by what God says. Are you saying, “But how can I help myself? Every time I see the wrong thing, then I get fearful.” That unbelief and bar can be uprooted. You can get rid of it.
Fear is the negative response of an unbelieving heart.
Jealousy is the response of the heart that relates without faith.
That is also unbelief, isn’t it? If you are jealous, you are relating without faith.
Jealousy is a futile effort to possess that which only love and faith can give.
Jealousy’s demands ultimately destroy the relationship it seeks to defend.
The heart of faith is prepared to hear before you speak. The heart of fear is deaf and never hears, no matter how many times you speak. This is wisdom from God.
Fear and jealousy are the closest things to insanity that a rational mind can ever experience.
The fear of the Lord is what fills a heart that has expelled all other fears.
The fear of the Lord is the heart’s concern lest we fail to believe all that He said.
We could preach sermons out of any one of these proverbs, and there would be a hundred Scriptures to back up each one of them.
The fearful heart is a composer of funeral dirges, but faith composes victory songs before the battles are fought.
If you study these proverbs, you will begin to realize where you have fear and where you have faith. You will see how to get rid of your fear and how to get faith, because it is so simple. Fear is not a thing that you try to suppress. You take an axe and chop off its root!
Fear is generated by the size of the enemy. But faith is moved only by the faithfulness and greatness of God.
This next proverb will help us with our oneness:
Where there is real oneness there is a focus on one thing or one person. Those who are taught must, as one, focus back on the one objective they heard in the Word.
The following is a list of some principles of oneness expressed in Kingdom Proverbs:
If I open my heart to one brother, I must open it to all my brothers.
I cannot open my heart to the Lord without opening my heart to His family (I John 5:1).
If I close my heart to my brother, I’m closing it to the Lord.
I cannot open my heart to my brother and close it to other brothers.
God is One, and oneness, like God Himself, is no respecter of persons. Every one of His family must be included.
True oneness should be without partiality.
In oneness, the Lord’s preeminence gives each of us our function and our importance.
In oneness, the Lord is preeminent; He is the only one who is great. His preeminence gives each one of us our function and our importance.
I cannot open my heart and close it at the same time, because an open door does not discriminate.
Oneness rejects the right to reject your brother.
Week after week this revelation of oneness has been like mining for gold and gleaning it out as the Word has been unfolding. But I see it as more like we are in the heart of God, and this oneness is not separate from Him. We are being exposed to the heart of the Lord with such a simplicity, and yet it goes to the depth of our heart. We have been receiving revelation teaching on certain areas like oneness, awareness, and other attributes into our freedom which are related to this oneness that has been coming forth. But now this revelation on fear and faith is like a miracle. In my own heart I am determined to see a deliverance for us from any root of fear within my brother and myself on any level. In our spirit we are receiving the greatest step of actual change, more than a thing that just edifies us. It is actually breaking the impasses so we can change.
In Revelation 21:8, KJV, the fearful and the unbelieving are the first on the list of those to be judged. As these judgments are starting, we must take care of what God will judge in our spirit—that fearful, unbelieving heart. Just speaking faith to a brother doesn’t necessarily take care of the fear, but God can impart the deliverance. Now is the timing of God to take care of fear.
That is the purpose for this Word. We are to see this really happen to us; it is just that simple. Night after night we meet together, and before the evening is over we know exactly what God is going to do for us. Then we impart it to each other. We are His channels who can do this for each other. If we get to the root, it will not have to be repeated.
What a torment we endure at the hands of fear, and how we have coexisted with it for so long! Yet, after this Word, I feel that we should compose a victory song.
Do you feel the urgency of faith? Faith is totally intolerant of unbelief. You are not to tolerate unbelief anymore. You are to get at the root. It is the beginning of miracle faith that you say, “Absolutely, I declare war on my unbelief. I’m going to be rid of it. Once and for all time, I will get at the root of that thing.”
Lord, we declare that Your servant is free. We are reaching in for you, John, and appropriating a freedom from fear and closing any open door in your thinking that would allow you to be assaulted. We are ministering to you and imparting the faith of Christ to every area of your thinking. We proclaim a freedom to move into exactly what God has for you. We declare that nothing can assault you to make you back off. The life of Jesus Christ is your portion.
We say that the lack of fear in your heart is striking fear and terror in the heart of the enemy.
Yes! Let it be so! I believe this. When they see that in nothing are we terrorized by the enemy, that is the evident token to them of their defeat (Philippians 1:28). When we get rid of fear, then faith becomes effective in our lives. I am the beneficiary of this first, the first partaker of it.
A principle has come that we must not lose. When you speak the Word, the people get it; then you have it imparted back to you, and then it is solidified. You are being a recipient of the Word. You have never had this before, where you speak the Word and it comes back to you immediately, even before you minister to the people. In the past, generally you spoke the Word; and then you would lay hands on people and seal it to them and then leave. But now you will be able to minister everything that has come to you, through this impartation process of the Word coming back on you first. This way you are free, and you have everything in you to minister it by the laying on of hands. Everyone receives it
I am wondering if there are any people who are the seal of one’s apostleship who have not first sealed his apostleship.
If to others I am not an apostle, at least to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. I Corinthians 9:2.
In less than thirty days, we have seen a multiplication of seer-prophet priests before God. In fact, it has been less than three weeks—as if in twenty-one days God has been creating more heavens and earths than He ever did in the first seven days. The changes are fantastic. It is difficult to imagine how much has happened in one church in a matter of days. There are different levels, and the people are different in their perception and understanding. Prophets of ages past have not seen what we have come to see in a few days. This is the Kingdom beginnings. It will take people a while to realize that in the overlapping dispensations we are already moving into the Kingdom. How we ought to trust the Lord!
I could have chosen a less difficult ministry, but from the very beginning I chose to possess the land of the giant Anakim. In the final analysis, this was how Jerusalem, the city of David, finally was wrestled from the hand of the Jebusites.
Now as for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the sons of Judah could not drive them out; so the Jebusites live with the sons of Judah at Jerusalem until this day. Joshua 15:63.
At Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah. Now the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, and they said to David, “You shall not come in here, but the blind and lame shall turn you away”, thinking, “David cannot enter here.” Nevertheless, David captured the stronghold of Zion, that is the city of David. And David said on that day, “Whoeuer would strike the Jebusites, let him reach the lame and the blind, who are hated by David’s soul, through the water tunnel.” Therefore they say, “The blind or the lame shall not come into the house.” So David lived in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. And David built all around from Millo and inward. And David became greater and greater, for the Lord God of hosts was with him. II Samuel 5:6–10.
God will not make His throne down in the valleys where we have driven out only a few Philistines. He will make His throne in Zion. It has to be taken from the enemy (I Chronicles 11:4–9). There is no Kingdom until we have uprooted the fears, uprooted the tormentors, and uprooted the assault that has come from all the nephilim, the Anakim, and the whole satanic realm. Once they are gone, then the rest of it is easy. Let’s go after the principalities and the powers—this is our warfare (Ephesians 6:12). We have chosen that. We proclaim that we will have no fear. We have faith in God to overcome in Christ our Lord.
This brings us back to a Scripture that we have heard over and over again: “God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and discipline” (II Timothy 1:7). We have this. This is where we are. This is the way we will prevail.
We talked about how deadly fear is. But we also must remember that we have had faith to prevail over all the circumstances we have walked in. The deliverance from every fear is going to bring the effectiveness of the greater works, and it will release very quickly the double portion (John 14:12). If we have done this well under assault, what will we do when we are more than conquerors? Let’s reach into this victory and take the land!
A cutting off comes because God hates the demons of fear, and He hates those who are moved by them. When the great judgment day comes, the fearful and unbelieving lead the parade to hell because there is no greater affront to God than that we should be fearful and unbelieving (Revelation 21:8, KJV). He has committed Himself so totally by His person, His character, His indwelling in us, His every Word and promise given to us, that for us to doubt or waver becomes a personal affront to Him. We must not doubt. God forgive us for any unbelief or moment of wavering. If we find ourselves wavering, we should fall on our faces and repent, saying, “God uproot this forever. I want no reactions of fear!”
The condemnation under the Law brought us to grace through faith; devastation and chastening brings us appropriation and impartation.
God’s dealings have accomplished so very much; the sufferings were not worthy to be compared with the glory revealed.
When we are One in Christ, the battle is won.
Win the battle against separateness; then you can appropriate oneness.
Draw me with love and I will run after you; draw me without love and I will run from you.
One word sustains faith; the same word spoken a thousand times does not quell fear.
The root of fear makes temporary any ministry of deliverance.
The defensive bluster of fear may often resemble the boldness of faith.
Fear is a convulsive conclusion to circumstances viewed without faith.
Fear is the negative response of an unbelieving heart.
Jealousy is the response of the heart that relates without faith.
Jealousy is a futile effort to possess what only love and faith can give.
The heart of faith is prepared to hear before you speak. The heart of fear is deaf and never hears, no matter how many times you speak.
The fear of the Lord is what is left after all other fears are expelled from the heart.
The fearful heart composes dirges; the believing heart composes victory songs before the battles are fought.
Fear is generated by the size of the enemy. Faith is moved only by the faithfulness and greatness of God.
I cannot open my heart to the Lord without opening my heart to His Family.
Oneness rejects the right to reject your brother.
True oneness should be without partiality. I cannot close my heart to a brother without closing it to the Lord and to my other brothers.
God is One; and oneness, like God, is no respecter of persons.
If we would be true believers, then we must be intolerant of unbelief and fear.