We need to seek the Lord until we are literally filled with the Holy Spirit. If we seek Him with all our heart we will find Him. The key is with all our heart. We are either seeking the Lord or we are distracted with something else. When we learn to concentrate our focus with intensity, then we can start touching His fullness. We find the lord to the degree that we seek Him. Our seeking has not been perfect, or we would be overflowing.
The provision for our perfection has already been made. Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father waiting upon us. Until we begin to hunger and thirst for His fullness, the later outpouring of the Spirit will not happen. To the degree that we get into the Spirit to that degree we change. Our spirit is a container, at any given moment we have more or less of God in it. When we are filled to the point that we overflow, that is when God takes over, that is when the Holy Spirit has come upon us.
Our experiences with God are to be ever expanding. As we begin exercising in the spirit, our spiritual muscles will begin to grow- muscle in the spirit realm is authority. To the degree that we are submitted to the Lord, to that degree we walk in His authority.
It is all about intimacy and relationship. God desires an intimate relationship with us, but He is waiting on us. He has already laid down His life for us. He has already done everything He is going to do; it is all up to us. He gives us the initiative to take the initiative.
Once we learn the spiritual laws and get in motion, things will start to take place in the natural realm quickly.
In order to be filled with the Spirit we have to partake of the Spirit. We have to eat or drink of the Spirit. We have to take something outside of us and get it into us. We have to use what we already have inside us and release it. By partaking of the Spirit we are drawing upon His nature and abilities. God imparts Himself to us through revelation. He reveals the truth to those who are willing to live by it. Those who are not willing to live by it remain in darkness.
It is through our willingness to do the Father’s will that God opens up our eyes to see the truth, even our will to do the Father’s will comes from God, he has to put His will in us. He does this by drawing us to Himself, and giving us the desire to know Him. Once we respond, the desire to know Him becomes stronger.
Once God gives us the desire to know Him and we respond by coming to Him, He reveals Himself to us by opening our spiritual eyes to see Him in His goodness. He imparts His faith to us to begin to trust Him. When we step out on this faith to act on the revelation He gives us, then He confirms His word and we begin to experience Him.
We first perceive with our spirit, to intuitively know, then we respond in faith through action, and then we understand or experience His will. With the spirit we perceive, and then with the mind we understand. As we begin to practice the spiritual principle He reveals, it begins to be written upon our heart, until it gets deep down into our subconscious mind and becomes the way we naturally respond.
We receive the truth first in our spirit, and as we begin to walk in it, it becomes a part of our soul. The salvation of our soul is a process, because our brain is like a computer that has to be reprogrammed.
We start out self-centered, so that self is considered first. We live to have our needs and desires met and this becomes a way of life. We become programmed, so that everything revolves around ourselves and what we want. No matter what we do, self-centerness always has a part to play in it. When we do well, we feels good. When we don’t do so well, we feel bad. Our world basically revolves around ourselves. No matter how good life may get, we still intuitively know that something is missing-that something is God at the center of our life.
To come out of ourselves and into God is impossible for us to do by ourselves, because the flesh-cannot kill the flesh. The rule of our soul must be displaced by the Spirit of God, until we are no longer even aware of ourselves, because our focus is totally upon Him and pleasing Him. God becomes so big and so great that we have found our life-but it is in Him.
So what we need to do is to get our focus off of ourselves and begin to focus on Him-and it is through this focus-that we are filled with His Spirit. Our primary function and calling in life is to worship Him. We were created to worship God and in so doing we become filled with His life, and when we are filled with His life we are no longer empty-we are a container of Him-and that life flows out to others and we experience total satisfaction. We no longer live to please ourselves we live to please Him and in so doing we experience the abundant life, the shedding of His love abroad in our heart.
John 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true(genuine, real) worshipers shall worship(toward-to kiss)(it speaks of intense love, deep respect, honor, awe, delight, adore) the Father in spirit( a right spirit, His spirit, His life) and in truth,(the unveiled reality agreeing with the truth, the manifestation of the Spirit) for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit; and they that worship him must (of necessity as to what is required, absolutely necessary, the only true worship) worship (the present infinitive tense, continuous action) him in spirit and truth.
We are living in the time of His Presence, as the Lord reveals Himself to us then worship spontaneously, continuously flows out of heart in love and adoration of Him. It is an experiencing of the abundant life, a heart so enormously grateful, thankful, and excited, because of the reality of a Father who loves us. It is called finding our life-This is what it is all about, nothing else matters, it is total satisfaction. His Spirit exhilarates us, we can feel the strength of a son being created, of all authority in heaven and earth being delegated to us as we begin to partake of His nature, and walk in submission to His perfect will.
A true worshiper walks in the Spirit. To walk in the Spirit we have to be God centered, every moment of the day we need to be aware that we are living to please Him, by acknowledging Him in everything we do and say. The moment our focus gets off of Him and on to ourselves, or our circumstances we lose the connection.
Psalm 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for you are with me; Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
We walk through the valley of the shadow of death. It is a shadow because it is not eternal; it is a temporary time of testing when we experience the correction of the Lord.
It is only as we partake from the table, that the anointing comes down upon our soul-mind and we are filled with the Spirit until it overflows. As we become God centered then the blessings follow us because we are no longer the focus.
The table set before us is in the presence of our enemy. The battle is related to the overflow. When the word is written upon our heart, it has become a way of life and the enemy stands powerless. The enemy has to keep us from partaking of the table; we cannot partake of the table without being filled. As we sow to the Spirit we reap life. So the enemy has to get our focus off of the Lord.
The key to the overcoming life is to learn how to drink and partake of the Lord until we overflow!