Oneness is Forever
We Don’t Have Any Point to Prove
Because we are not in conflict to solve problems, we don’t seem to have any point to prove. We don’t have any point to prove—all we have to do is carry one another in love.
Panning For Gold
Let’s have faith. Of all people in the earth, I speak to you with a faith because I have watched everything seem to be swept away—only to find that God’s hand which seemed to be shaking everything was panning for gold; and He found it at the bottom of the pan. And that’s what God is doing for all of you.
You Become The Seal Of My Apostleship
Don’t ever be ambitious to be an apostle; just read carefully what it means: praying day and night, travail, times when no one seems to stand with you (Romans 1:9; II Timothy 1:3; Galatians 4:19; II Timothy 4:10–11, 16). Then under the intense fire you establish a beachhead, and you begin to build. And you wonder, “What have I done? What have I accomplished in all of this?” But it grows from day to day; you become the seal of my apostleship. But you not only become the seal of it; you become the occasion of its prevailing and overcoming and winning. You have done that; you are doing it.
This is the first breakthrough to the effective oneness of the Kingdom that has come.
Our Awareness Of Oneness Becomes A Thing Of Love
You’re what God was after all the time. That is what He was asking for. Now you can be fruitful, if you just hold fast to the Word, the thing that has come here. Believe it. Walk in it. Don’t doubt it. Don’t waver in it. There is so much in the Scriptures that points out how our awareness of oneness becomes a thing of love, a love that isn’t always joyful. It’s a fairy tale to say, “They lived happily ever after.” If it was true love, they had pain, they had need, they travailed and brought forth children, they learned how to forget themselves. They learned how to take authority and responsibility.
Authority is meaningless unless there is a responsibility to love and nurture and bring forth that which you have authority over.
God didn’t say, “Live happily ever after.” He said, “Be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it” (Genesis 1:28); and that’s what we are doing. In the Spirit we are learning that we are going to be one.
When We Stand Alone We Are A Prey
I have learned one thing: Don’t try to solve problems, because the problems are not really the problem. We have no problem, except when we stand alone. When we stand alone, we are a prey. But when we are one, the problems—in their threat of what they can mean and what they can do to us—are absolved, because “inasmuch as they do it unto the least of these My brethren,” they are doing it unto the Lord (Matthew 25:40).
The cure for all problems is at work; the antidote for the poison of the flesh and conflict is found in the fact that we started to crawl into one another’s hearts. There can be no outcome but His victory in all of us.
Problems Are No Longer Valid
We are in one another’s hearts to create and to change; therefore the Lord is leading us, and the Word has come: Don’t try to solve the problems; just be one with one another, and then God puts you on a level where those problems are no longer valid.
You don’t solve problems in oneness, for the very oneness brings you above it. Please believe in what has happened to you.
“Satan Is A Lie And The Father Of It”
The more you accept oneness, the more you are free. If you don’t accept oneness, of course the enemy will say that the problems exist. I think that the truest statement Jesus ever said was this: “Satan is a lie and the father of it” (John 8:44). Let’s believe that.
Removing The Restrictions That Independence And Individuality Have
One of the first things that we must be aware of is this: Oneness is removing the restrictions that independence and individuality have. This is the first time in a quarter of a century since the Word has been preached that the Body is truly becoming one, the first time it has been so practical.
Oneness Puts Us On The Top Of A Cliff That Nobody Else Can Scale
Satan may have unity, but he has no oneness. We have oneness. That puts us in another realm; it puts us on the top of a cliff that nobody else can scale. Individuals do not scale this level. Only people who are one leap into it are drawn into it; it’s a different level.
In This Oneness, Everything Is Made To Be A Thing Of Peace
What about those we have been at variance with? Well, do you believe that the Lord is in this oneness? Do you think the Lord is pleased with what we are doing here? Remember—when a man’s ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him (Proverbs 16:7). Now what does that mean? It means that if I please the Lord in my ways, even the thing within me that is an enemy of me has to be at peace with the Lord. How much more is everything between us made to be a thing of peace. We have labored, but we have truly entered into His rest (Hebrews 4:11, KJV).
You Are Needed So That Your Brother Can Live In You
The last phase of oneness is that thing which seems to operate upon the independence of the flesh. And that flesh may have progressed well through various stages, so that now that flesh is very sensitive, very much open to condemnation—quite religious, in fact. It always wants to hide or drop off the face of the earth, and you can’t do that either. You can’t, because you are needed. You are needed so that your brother can live in you. You can’t shut him out!
In the Kingdom there are no locks on the hearts. And once the door is open, we are open totally. That is why Paul kept praying, and he spoke it in his epistle: “I entreat you, enlarge your hearts. You’re not limited in us; you’re limited in yourself. I entreat you in a fair exchange, you be open to us as we are open to you” (II Corinthians 6:11–13).
Be Aware Of The Tremendous Thing You Have Become To Each Other
God has taken away the club, and He has given each one of us a shepherd’s crook. He said, “Lead My people; lead them into what they are to be.” That’s what you are going to do. There is a solemn awareness of what we have been through and what it is really going to mean. I am not giving you a pep talk, but I am trying to just help you to understand and be aware of the tremendous thing that you have become to each other. You are one.
The Lord Being Glorified
How many say, “Give us the directions so that whatever we do, we’re going to do it right.” All right, minister to me, just like you have been doing. You say, “We’re back on that?”
We never left it. We have yet to see the fullness of it. Would you say that the greatest miracle in all of these services has been me? But running a very close second is you; look in the mirror—you were changing too. Why? Because it was the Lord who was being glorified.
Our Oneness Puts Us In A Realm Where The Problems Are Not An Effective Deterrent
I am trying to tell you where you are, so that you will understand where you are going to go. You are going to walk in this Word. You don’t have to worry about crossing rivers; you don’t have to worry about solving problems. I have to get that through to you, and you’re still going to have a problem with it because you don’t believe it. But when you believe it, you will know: “Our oneness put us in a realm where the problems are not going to be an effective deterrent at all to our soaring in the heavenly places.”
If you can refuse your problems, you are going to have a very unlimited future. Abide in Him and let His Words abide in you, and whatever you ask, He will do it for you
(John 15:7).
A Course Of Doctrine That Is Absolutely The Truth
Even before the work of the cross is completed in our flesh, we still have the potential in our spirit of being one, one with the Lord. That is where you are. Rather simply, I have given you a course of doctrine that is absolutely the truth.
Oneness Means Perfect, All-Around, Complete Forgiveness
“For if you forgive men for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions.” Matthew 6:14–15.
Oneness means God’s forgiveness of you, and your forgiveness of yourself, and your forgiveness of your brother. That eliminates self-condemnation, because you accept God’s forgiveness of you, and you forgive yourself. You see, a lot of self-condemnation is not that God hasn’t forgiven you; it’s that you never forgave yourself. So the root of it is there, and you are still crawling with a religious condemnation. That same thing leads you, because of your own feeling of inadequacy, not to forgive your brother. You accept him as a threat as long as you don’t forgive yourself. Therefore the great commandment is this: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart.” But the second is very much like it: “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:36–39). And if you don’t love yourself, you don’t forgive yourself, you don’t believe God has forgiven you. Then you can’t love your brother.
Oneness means perfect, all-around, complete forgiveness. Forgive! I don’t care what they have done. Forgive, and be one.
You Can Reach Into Areas And Repent For Me
And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. Ephesians 4:32.
We think, “Well, that means we’re not to hold grudges.” No, it goes beyond that. If I can forgive you, you can reach into areas and repent for me; and you can minister forgiveness to me from God. We do not recognize the prerogative we have. It’s a great privilege; it’s an authority.
God Would Not Be Glorified If I Could Do This Myself
I have reached this place where God would not be honored and God would not be glorified if I could do this myself. The Kingdom then would be a do-it-yourself kit. And it can never be that. The Kingdom is going to come forth because it is within us, all of us.
Oneness Cannot Be Defeated
Everybody is reduced to a common level, and you see that your importance in bringing me forth equals my importance in bringing you forth. There is no difference. It is the thing that brings the greater glory to the Lord Himself. Nobody is going to get the glory out of this but the Lord. This is the safest, surest move—one that cannot be perverted or distracted—that has ever come. Oneness cannot be defeated, because it is God’s ultimate victory; it is already the victory. Oneness becomes the expression of everything that Christ won for us. Oneness becomes a channel by which everything Christ won can be ministered.
But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him, who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by that which every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love. Ephesians 4:15–16.
The battle isn’t to be won; when we are one, it is already won. You believe this. This is what makes it work. When you become one, the war is over.
Nobody is unimportant; but on the other hand, nobody is important but the Lord.
I Can Believe In This Spirit That Is Working
I am not putting my faith in flesh, but I am putting my faith in your spirit which is one with my spirit. I am putting my faith in the Christ who is one with me and you who are one with me. I can trust that. I can believe for that; but I cannot believe in my own flesh, and I can’t believe in your flesh. I can believe in this spirit that is working.
We Are Going To Bear One Another’s Burdens
Nobody, at this particular point, stands or falls by his own worthiness, because the Lord is able to hold him up. We are going to bear one another’s burdens (Galatians 6:2).
We Guarantee One Another’s Success In The Spirit
Nobody has lost out; nobody is defeated. I tell you, nobody is defeated! Nobody has lost anything. And not only that, but our faith seals that. We guarantee one another’s success in the spirit. Our faith determines that.
The only way the enemy could pick us off was when we weren’t one, and one with the Word.
We are going to rehearse this Word that has been coming to one another, until there is a great awareness and consciousness of where we are. We are not working for a memory of teaching; we are working for an awareness of a oneness. All of this Word will keep working at us.
Distinctions Are Disappearing
We don’t realize that we are both a sheep and a shepherd, and the Lord within us is a Shepherd (Hebrews 13:20–21). And we don’t realize how much the Lord is in the sheep. And as much as we do it unto them, we are doing it unto the Lord (Matthew 25:40). This thing of oneness is so mixed up that you can’t think of individual entities anymore. We can’t think of that anymore, because those distinctions are disappearing. We may have individual lives, which will become more precious to all of us; but we do not have an individual identity. We are being swallowed up in one.
We Get Our Immunity When We Cease To Be Individually Independent Of One Another
Our oneness means that we break through into that which no one of us could ever attain alone. We are compelled. We are scared, too. I’m frightened because I know I cannot exist in the limitations of independence. I can’t survive under it. The battle is too heavy. We are either going to be one, or we will disappear from the face of the earth. God will have to raise up other people who will be one, because it is not going to be accomplished by individuals.
We could put in a Kingdom Proverb: A vampire has to bite one neck at a time and suck it dry of its blood, but he can never bite the Body of Christ.
We get our immunity from the witchcraft and from the things that come to destroy us, we cease to be a prey, when we cease to be individually independent of one another.
Warfare Is Going To End
Warfare is going to end to such a marked degree for those who are one. I tell you, that is the truth. We reduced ninety percent of the battle that each of us was facing when we crossed over into the oneness.
The Withdrawing Spirit Is Satan’s Tool To Stop The Oneness
The only thing the enemy can use is to get you to withdraw. If he can get you to withdraw, he can pick you off. I think that withdrawing spirit has been the greatest tool Satan had, because it was his effort to stop the oneness.
We Don’t Have To Lose This Breakthrough
The changes here were not a matter of geography, or of time; the changes here were a matter of becoming one. We did it. We don’t have to lose it.
You lose your limitations in the oneness that you have attained. We are free, because we are one!
Proverbs: The Roots of Fear
The Amazing Expansion of the Miracle Ministry Of The Seer-Priest
We are watching the amazing expansion of the miracle ministry of the seer-priest. This means, of course, that there is a great shift in our services, because the prophets are not speaking so much as the priests are seeing and creating by impartation, by their ministries. It doesn’t make any sense until you understand the difference between what was the Church Age and what is the Kingdom. The Church Age was largely an age of preaching—evangelism, and so forth. The Kingdom is related to officiating before the Lord as priests who minister.
The Greatest Ministry Of Impartation
In the Old Testament the priests could lay hands on an animal and impart to that animal the sins of the person who brought it (Leviticus 4). It becomes the greatest ministry of impartation there ever was; and that is why the greatest battle that we have had for the last twenty years has been with transference, where the counterpart of imparting—witchcraft—was fighting what we were going to do in the spirit of impartation. Satan anticipated it and the false came before the true; and I would say we have had almost a hopeless battle against transference until this summer. This is the turning point, and impartation by the people of God is going to be so great that the witchcraft is just going to whither and die.
We are not preaching so much as we are taking a person by the hand and we are leading him into becoming something. It is impartation in ways that we have never known before.
Let God Minister You Into It Through Your Brother And Sister
It is living in one another’s hearts that opens it up. What is coming is pure impartation. The quicker you get out of trying to reason your way into it and you just let God minister you into it through your brother and sister, the quicker you are going to get it.
The Body Makes Increase Of Itself In Love
What is the key of this? Just look at the history of it. How much has come by Communion? We sit and eat of the bread and drink the wine, and we wind up with something that you can’t explain. Communion was never like this before. We lay hands on people. Before, who could lay hands on people? Maybe an elder could, or an apostle. But now you notice that we get together and we begin to bless each other and impart to each other and the Body is actually coming together so that it may make increase of itself in love through that which every joint supplies (Ephesians 4:16).
We Are Just Beginning To Explore Oneness
For the first time we have Body ministry, because for the first time we have oneness. And that’s just in its beginning. We are just beginning to explore oneness. The Kingdom of God is relationships. I have told you that over and over again.
We Have Devastation To Bring Us Into Appropriation
Why did we have to have devastation? We really had to have it for this reason: In the Old Testament, the Law was given to make people aware of their sin. The Law never made anybody righteous, but it did bring the knowledge of our need of righteousness. Christ came to bring righteousness, but how do we get to the end of the flesh and self-righteousness and self, 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 12:5–10). We can’t have the Law to bring us under condemnation, but we do have devastation to bring us into appropriation. And that’s where we heal one another.
Devastation Must Lead To Impartation Or It Is Pointless
Somebody says, “I’ve been so devastated. I’m at the end of myself. What will I do?” There is nothing you can do. You have been brought to that place so that you can have somebody lay hands on you and you can get it. Devastation must lead to impartation or it is pointless.
God Devastated The Old Ways Because An Age Had Ended
Why did God devastate the old ways of doing things, the churches, and everything? Because an age had ended. We heard that, and who wanted to believe it? Who wanted to believe that we had come to the threshold of the Kingdom in that seven-year period from 1972 to 1979? When that period ended, people said, “Well, the Kingdom didn’t come.” It did too! It did come!
We Passed Over The Boundary Line Of An Age And Didn’t Realize It
We passed over the boundary line of an age and didn’t realize it. It wasn’t long until the Words “The Line Is Drawn” and “The End Of Illusion” came, and different things happened and it really worked. The tares and the wheat were separated (Matthew 13:28–30), and a lot of things happened; we walked through things that could not have been produced by anything else but just the hand of God bringing it forth. And that devastation had to end it, because God was not well-pleased that we continue on, locked into the observances and the ways of ministry and worship that belong to another age. He was immediately about to establish us in a new age.
Devote As Much Time As You Can To Get Into “The Unfolding”
We should devote as much time as we can day and night to get into “the Unfolding.” If you miss it, it will wane in your mind. But if you get into oneness, it’s forever; it’s for the whole Kingdom. How are we going to do it? First of all, we were so sovereignly led; let’s go back and listen to the tapes. Let’s pick up everything we can.
Listen to one of the services that came in “the Unfolding.” The whole procedure of the services has been so different. We would have a Word; then we would come together and talk. The Lord would direct us, and we would move in and minister. But the services are totally without the form that we were used to.
Devastation—Never Has So Little Accomplished So Much
I have never seen God heal without scars so fast in my life as what He has been doing in this. There is such an impartation, such a new level in the Word that you almost have to catch up on this and know that it is in a sequence of experience. It’s like an experience; it’s like a thing of becoming.
Ezekiel went out and looked at the bones, and he began to prophesy and the bones came together. That was good unity, but then the Lord began to put the sinews and the flesh on; he prophesied again and the Spirit kept moving (Ezekiel 37:1–10). It was quite a thing to go from being a dry bone to being part of the army, but it came in stages of the Spirit moving. And I think that is what we are doing. We watched God devastate us. I think He even scraped our bones a little bit, and then He began to bring the healing and bring the miracle.
What is happening is so fantastic that we will consider that devastation was probably the most economical move God ever made to produce the army of the Lord. Never has so little accomplished so much.
Oneness Has One Solution To All Problems: The Creativity Of God
When you hit this, do not try to solve problems, because solving problems or confronting one another is still an individual with an individual—it’s not oneness. Oneness has only one solution to all problems, and that is the creativity of God. We are one in Him, and the battle is already won. The problems just seem to disappear in the oneness. We’re going to have to get it. We have heard it and heard it; but we are going to understand it, and we are going to know how to live in it.
The Step Whereby The Fullness Of God Is Going To Be Ministered To The Body
This is going to work because it is the step whereby the fullness of God is going to be ministered to the Body. From this time on you’re going to understand one procedure: I give you a Word and you hear it and you minister it back to me. When we do that, who changes the most—me or you? We all change. When we become one, we are effective when our focus is on one thing or one person.
We All Simultaneously Become What The Word Set Before Us
The key has been the same during the whole time: I would give you a Word, and you would hear it, and you would minister it back to me and make it real to me, because that was what God wanted. He wanted me to minister a Word to you and He wanted you to minister a Word back to me, and we would all simultaneously become what the Word set before us. We would all become it, just instantly. This is the step. This is what we’re here for; it’s worth everything.
Body Ministry Will Have Its Reality And Fulfillment In This Oneness
Everything that you have always wanted to believe was related to Body ministry will have its reality and fulfillment in this oneness. And the amazing thing is that when you become one in Christ, “there is therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ” (Romans 8:1).
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 that. It is frightening because it is so true. You decide, “Well, I am going to believe for one.” The first thing is that you have to enter into a dedication that you are not going to be separate from your brother. Otherwise, you have none of the benefits and wonder of oneness; you have nothing but turmoil. Decide that you are going to be one and declare your dedication against separateness, and you will get torn to ribbons; but that’s the way in.
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.
We have to face the fact that oneness is working by impartation; but the dedication side of it is that you’re determined that you are not going to be separated from your brother, your sister, or the Lord anymore. You’re determined.
Any ministry without love repels more than it draws. Fear fills the vacuum where there is no love, and it repels by insecurity or intimidation as much as love and faith never attract.
If you don’t have love, fear will fill that vacuum. Think about it. That’s exactly what happens, and then it repels by insecurity or intimidation as much as love and faith attract.
Fear and insecurity is a gnawing appetite that is never satisfied, no matter how much reassurance is fed to satisfy it.
Have you ever seen that happen to somebody? If somebody has faith, you tell him something and he accepts it. You can say the same thing to somebody who is fearful and insecure, and you could tell him a thousand times and he still won’t get it.
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 begin to realize how fear is our life. We have to come to the place where we say, “I am not going to fear. A host could encamp against me, but I will not fear (Psalm 27:3). I am one with the Lord.” We are getting to the place where we are going to do exploits, and we’re not going to do them if we are fearful in heart. We are not going to do the greater works until we come out of that fear, that insecurity. Get out of it. I could say a thousand times that everything is all right, and you would never believe it. 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 something to one person and he will get it, but you can minister the same thing to somebody else, and you have to do it the next service, and the next service, and the next; and you’re still working at it five years later. Why? Because if we 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 who has not had 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.
You see, you create something, and the two things wipe each other out. The faith and fear neutralize each other, and you wind up with a vacuum. It is neither good nor bad—nothing happens. But if you want it to really work, get rid of the fear first; then minister the faith, and that faith will move mountains.
Fear and unbelief necessitate that all “deliverances” be repetitious and frequent, but they are never permanent.
Do you want to change? The first thing that we are going to do is to not listen to one tape with fear or reservation in our hearts. We are going to lay an axe to the root of it (Matthew 3:10). We are going to be filled with faith. We are going to hear with faith. Miracles are going to happen to us. Whatever conditioning our belief or fear has made, we are going to get rid of it.
Fear is a root that only the axe of faith can sever.
Let’s lay the axe to the root. Let’s start believing. If we don’t do anything else, let’s just have faith to believe that we can deal with one another’s fears and intimidation. All of those things have to go. This uprooting of fear and unbelief 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.
The fearful hearts are going to have to be delivered. We are going to fight fire with fire. You are not going to try to counsel people and soothe them, because that water is not going to put out this fire. It’s going to take a miracle fire of faith to put out the fires of fear.
If faith is a miracle appropriation, then a deliverance from unbelief must likewise be a miracle uprooting.
If faith is a miracle impartation to your heart, then the 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 thing.
Fear is a reaction of what I see when I don’t believe.
When you look at things without faith, that causes all the problems.
Fear is the convulsive conclusion to circumstances viewed without faith.
I’m all through being troubled with this. I am determined that I am not going to be moved by anything but what God says. You say, “But how can I help myself? Every time I see the wrong thing I get fearful.” We are going to get rid of it. That unbelief and that fear is something that can be uprooted. You can get rid of it.
Fear is the negative response of a heart without God.
Jealousy is the response of a heart that relates without faith.
This puts it back to unbelief, doesn’t it? Are you jealous? You’re relating without faith.
Jealousy is a futile effort to possess that which only love and faith can give.
The demands of jealousy 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.
Fear and jealousy are the closest things to insanity that a rational mind can ever experience.
The fear of the Lord is the result of a heart that has expelled all other fears.
The fear of the Lord is the heart’s terror of not believing all that He says.
The fearful heart is a composer of funeral dirges; but faith composes victory songs before the battles are fought.
If you would take all of these and study them, you would begin to realize where you have fear, where you have faith, how you get rid of the fear, and how you get the faith. It’s so simple. Fear is not a thing that you try to suppress; it’s a thing that you take an axe to and chop off the root.
Fears are generated by the size of the enemy, but faith is moved only by the faithfulness and greatness of God.
Principles Of Oneness
The following is a list of some principles of oneness expressed in Kingdom Proverbs:
There is no real oneness without a focus on one thing, or one person. Those who are taught must, as one, focus back on the one objective or they haven’t heard the Word.
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.
If I close my heart to my brother, I am 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.
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.
This is the timing to take care of this fear. That’s the purpose we are here for. We are here to see this really happen to us; it is just that simple. We know exactly what God is going to do to us. We are His channels who are going to do it to each other. If we get to the root, it will not have to be repeated.
You feel such an urgency—like you have faith, and faith is totally intolerant of unbelief. You are not going to tolerate that unbelief anymore. You are going to get at it. It’s the beginning of miracle faith that you say, “Absolutely, I am going to declare war on this unbelief. I am going to get rid of it. Once and for all time I am going to get at the root of that thing.”
When We Get Rid Of Fear, Faith Becomes Effective
In nothing are we terrorized by the enemy; that’s the evident token to them of their defeat (Philippians 1:28). When we get rid of fear, then faith becomes the effective thing in our lives. Faith becomes effective. The amazing thing is that I’m the beneficiary of this first, the first partaker of it.
The apostle Speaks The Word, The People Get It And Impart It Back, And Then It’s Solidified
The principle that has come, and that we can’t lose, is that you’re going to speak the Word, the people get it, and then you have it imparted back to you; then it’s solidified. From there it can go wherever it’s going to go, but it has to have that first solidification.
You can have a lot of kernels of popped corn, but when you pour the molasses on it, you have one big cornball. And that’s what the Lord is doing. We are solidified by the Word that has come to deliver us in faith, and so we can’t give to one without we all get it.
You are being a recipient of the Word. You have never had that before. You are giving the Word and it’s coming back to you right then, before you even go to minister it out to the people. The general way you have done it before is that you give the Word, and then you go lay on hands and seal it to the people, and then you leave. But see, the way that you’re going to be able to minister everything that has come to you is that first this process comes back on you and you’re free. You’re so free; you’ve got everything in you to minister it with the laying on of hands. Everybody receives it.
I was just wondering if there are any people who are the seal of one’s apostleship who have not first sealed his apostleship.
We Are Already Living In The Kingdom
It’s difficult to imagine how much has happened right here in this church in a matter of days. Your perception, your understanding—you’re different. Prophets of ages past have not seen what you have come to see in a few days here.
This is the Kingdom. It is going to take people awhile to realize that in the overlapping dispensations, we are already living in the Kingdom. How we ought to trust the Lord!
There Is No Kingdom Until You Have Uprooted The Fears
If God had asked me what I wanted, I could have had a more popular ministry. But from the very beginning I chose the land of the Anakim (Joshua 14:12). And in the final analysis, Jerusalem, the City of David, is finally taken from the land of the giants (Joshua 15:63; II Samuel 5:6–10). That’s where God is going to make His throne—in Zion. It has to be taken from the enemy. There is no Kingdom until you have uprooted the fears, uprooted the tormentors, uprooted the assault that has come from all of the nephilim and the Anakim and the whole bit. Once that’s gone, then the rest of it is easy. We get at those principalities and powers. That’s where our warfare is. We have chosen that. We fight it. We proclaim that we have no fear of it. We have faith in God to overcome it. It comes right 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 of love and discipline” (II Timothy 1:7).
Deliverance From Fear Is Going To Bring The Greater Works And The Double Portion
We talked about how deadly fear is, but we also must remember that we have had faith to prevail over all the circumstances. What I am thinking about is that the deliverance from fear is going to bring the effecting of the greater works. It’s going to release very quickly the double portion. And if we have done this well under assault, what will we do when we are more than conquerors?
No Reactions Of Fear
There is a cutting off, because God hates the demons of fear, and He hates those who move by it. When the great Judgment Day comes, the fearful and the unbelieving lead the parade into hell (Revelation 21:8), because there is no greater affront to God than that we should be fearful and unbelieving when He has committed Himself so totally to us by His person, by His character, by His indwelling in us, by every Word, every promise given to us. For us to doubt or waver in it becomes a personal affront to God Himself. We are not going to doubt. God forgive us for any unbelief we have had—or even a moment of wavering. If we find ourselves wavering, we should fall on our faces and repent and say, “God, uproot that forever. I want no reactions of fear.”
Gifts for the Imperfect
You are Going to Create Each Other in God
Discerning of spirits, prophecy, tongues, interpretation (I Corinthians 12:8–10)—all of these things are given to people to reach perfection, not because they are perfect. And when we come to create one another, we lay hands upon each other because we have faith. Get over that idea, “Is this person worthy or unworthy to do it?” You’ve got to do it! It’s not going to happen any other way. You’re going to create each other in God; that’s the way it is going to happen.
You Are Having Faith To Create In Each Other A Capacity For Perfection
We get this idea that we have to work something up until we are worthy to be one. That is not it. Jesus said, “The glory that I have with Thee, I have given to them, that they may be made perfect in one” (John 17:23, KJV). Notice that: “may be made.” They will be made perfect in one. The perfection comes after you have become one, so go ahead and minister the oneness; create it in each other. You are going to be worthy of it after a while, because in that oneness miracles occur; perfection occurs. What you are doing is having faith to create in each other a capacity for perfection. It is that great. You are going to do it to each other.
“The Christ In Me Makes Me Effective As A Tool Of His Creation”
This is the most exciting thing! You see, we don’t have to be worthy. Only believe. Do it. Do it! Do you know how to bless a person? Come up and say, “I am taking something from you. I am taking what you have to give me. By faith I am taking a miracle.” Then he gets blessed in doing it. If he didn’t have it, he had to get it, because you were taking it from him. How much water is in a faucet? Turn it on and see. It has to come from someplace.
“Lord, we look up to bless. We draw from You. It’s not in us alone, but the Christ in us makes our hands effective as a tool of His creation, in the name of the Lord.” You see, we do it! Bless each other!
Purity, Perception, Procedure
Keep Praying for Me
This was a day that we were concerned about battle, so one good thing that is going is that you people keep praying for me. I used to be right in the middle of the battle and I’m not in it anymore. Just keep that up. You are taking the battle. I like that idea. It’s a good thing to see that I am out of it; but because I am out of it, there is a great deal of authority to move in, to loose people and help people. I just walk around feeling the anointing of the Lord and start loosing them. You see, really I’m going to help people in the battle more by what they have done for me. It is a mutual thing that we are studying.
There Can Be No Gospel Of The Kingdom Until There Is A Real Manifestation Of The Kingdom
I have had a witness from the Lord that there is going to be a tremendous breakthrough. That’s what we are here for. This is the birth of that which will be the gospel of the Kingdom going to the ends of the earth. For there can be no gospel of the Kingdom until there is a real manifestation of the Kingdom.
The Gospel Of The Kingdom Is A One-To-One Encounter—You’re Going To Go And Create
The real gospel of the Kingdom is going to be a one-to-one encounter. You’re going to go and create. The Word was, “Go and make disciples” (Matthew 28:19). When you get into that Word, it means that you are actually going to make them. Make disciples of the nations. How are you going to do it? You’re going to create them. It’s not going to be talking somebody into it.
The Ministering Priests, With Their Powers In God To Impart And Create, Are The Only Answer
I’m so persuaded that the ministering priests, with their powers in God to impart and to create, are the only answer. You will never be able to preach the Kingdom into existence. It has never been done for two thousand years, and there have been some better preachers than any of us will ever be. We’re never going to change it until we get into the miracle power of God and the greater works. That’s what is going to do it. We are going to do it.
What God Is Doing Is Going To Tie Us Together In A Function That Is One
What God is doing is not going to tie people into a dependency on me. But it is going to tie us together in a function that is one. There is a big difference. I’m going to be with you and ministering through your hands, through your face, through words that you speak. And you are going to be doing the same thing with me. We are going to learn the real power of synergistic action in oneness. And I still think that there is going to be a pure way of flowing that is going to be so effective.
Meeting God In An Experience Is A Very Important Thing
When I lay hands on some of the little children, I’ll turn to the parents and say, “It’s time for this child to have an experience with God.” And we sometimes minimize that: “Oh, we minister and we bless.” But there are very definite experiences that people need—experiences of real salvation, of meeting the Lord, of being released from the flesh, of praying and finding a healing from God. Meeting God in an experience becomes a very, very important thing, especially in our children.
An Experience Does Not Come Because Somebody Taught You Into It, But Because Somebody Imparted It To You
I’m going to recommend that during this period, in order for the Kingdom teaching to be great, we do not emphasize so much that the children listen to the tapes as much as we minister the impartation to them. In the first place, an experience does not come because someone has taught you into it. Most of the things that you have received, you received because somebody imparted them to you.
All That Happened Was Because Our Hearts Were Open Enough To Have It Happen
The teaching was valuable and important and unfolded it, but the minute you listen to the tapes you are aware of one thing: these services were services of impartation and appropriation. The teaching was wonderful; it was a Kingdom level of teaching we never heard before. But if you heard the teaching and you didn’t bother to have somebody lay hands on you or bless you, or you didn’t sit for an hour breaking bread and drinking wine in a Communion service while something was happening to you, you missed it. Almost all that happened happened not because we were wise enough to understand it, but because our hearts were open enough to have it happen to us.
You Are Going To Create A Miracle In Your Brother’s Heart
During the course of the day, I would like to see a couple of occasions in which you take Communion for the impartation of it, and the appropriation, and you minister to each other, especially when people who are believing are present. They don’t have to have a position or anything else. Just start blessing each other. Minister the Communion to each other, because what you are going to do is create a miracle in your brother’s heart. That is exactly the name of the game. It’s from God through you that it is going to function. I wish somebody would take the burden, because besides the hearing, there must be the doing, or we are going to miss the whole thing.
Experience It As Much As Anybody Possibly Could
If we just get a token of it, I am going to be disappointed. We have had services in which everybody is changed in one service. And we want to take what has been happening and bring you into it, and let you experience it as much as anybody possibly could. Are you set to really see it happen?
The Seer Ministry Is Starting, And It Is Going To Fill The Whole Earth
I remember back in the early days when the Lord started meeting us, I had sores in my mouth for five years. I was beginning to speak a Living Word, and that Word would begin to flow, because God was anointing me to speak. Now I have had three or four years of my eyes constantly watering, and being afflicted; and there is nothing wrong with them. Now the seer ministry is starting, and it is going to fill the earth. I know what I’m going through, but it is not for me alone. I am going to open the door until you and your children are going to see visions and wonders and signs in God. The Kingdom is going to come with such perception to you.
Do You Want To See? Be Cleansed By Impartation
You ask, “How can I see the things of God?” Be pure in heart. Take Communion. Be purified yourself. For it is written, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8). Do you want to see? Be cleansed. “Okay, then I’m going to get busy.” No, be cleansed by impartation. You will have to be righteous. “Okay, I am going to become righteous by impartation.” It must be imputed.
Become By Impartation, Not By Learning
Forget once and for all that you are going to produce this thing. It is going to be created in you, absolutely. I’m giving you the guideline. Open your heart. Get the miracle of this thing. Look and behold the things of spirit. See the devil; see what God is doing—behold it. Perception. You’re here to become something—not by learning, but by impartation. Seek it.
Have The Faith To Say, “I Appropriate It”
Someplace you are going to have to have the faith to say, “This will work—not because of some little gimmick that I know how to do, but because I appropriate it. I am going to have the miracle of this thing in me. I am going to get enough of God to do all of this. I’m going to see. My eyes are going to see the wondrous things in the Word and what God is doing” (Psalm 119:18, KJV).
You Are Going To Be Seers
You’re believing that you are going to become more perceptive. You are going to be seers. It’s going to work. During these days this is going to work for you. I am all through trying to preach people into it and teach them without insisting that they have the experience of it.
Look Upon Perception As A Faculty We Will Have Because We Have A Right State Of Heart
The Lord was speaking to me, “Why did My servants, My handmaidens have visions and dreams through the years?” In almost every case, whether they were legalistic or not, they were seeking to be pure before God. They were seeking for it and the visions came. I wonder if we should not look upon perception, upon our moving in God, totally as a faculty that we will have because we have a right state of heart.
If Your Spirit Is Pure Before God, Your Eyes Are Going To See
We are going to be created in God first. And because we are created in God and we create one another, I can bless you that your spirit be holy and pure before God; and with that your eyes are going to see. If your eye is single, your whole body is going to be full of light (Matthew 6:22).
Judgment—A By-Product Of Those Whose Ways Please The Lord
Judgment is not the first thing we attain. Judgment should be considered as a by-product of those whose ways please the Lord.
Because Of Their Total Dedication To The Will Of God, The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth
The pure in heart are going to see God. The meek are going to inherit the earth (Matthew 5:5). Why should somebody who is meek inherit the earth? It is because they have lost the human aggressiveness, and they have come into the total dedication to the will of God. So they possess it for the Lord.
The Living Works Are Going To Come From People Who Have Impartation Of The Perfect Nature Of Christ
If you abide in Him and His Words abide in you, you have lessened and made absolutely different your life. You are not living in yourself, in the flesh. You are living in the Lord. Whatever you ask will be done (John 15:7). These living works are not going to be done by people who have had lessons in working miracles. The living works are going to come from people who have impartation of the perfect nature of Christ, and they have ministered it to one another.
A Seer Should Be A Result Of The Purification Of God In Our Nature
There are no mechanics; it is born out of a heart of God.
There are no mechanics, inasmuch as when you are born you begin to see. There are no mechanics to sight, that you have to wait so long to be taught how to see. Sight is the result of being a human being. A seer should be a result of the purification of God in our nature.
Fleshly Reactions Will Make Us Ineffective
I think we have more truth there than we realize: we want to be pure, forgiving, without any of the fleshly reactions. Fleshly reactions will make us ineffective. But the new nature has to come by a miracle impartation from God. It is the key of everything.
I Want To Resurrect Lambs
I want the anointing of God to resurrect lambs. I want to heal them. I want to get those poor little lambs, who are lying there with the buzzards picking on them, and resurrect them. It sounds strange, but to tell you the truth, the fury against the wolves is God’s fury about it. God and I and all of us are wrapped up in the love for these lambs. That’s what I want to see done, and you can believe to impart this to me. I want the power to just touch you and see years healed, see futility gone. The Lord will take care of the enemy. He will take care of judgment. We say, “Something is in the way. God, You take care of it. We’re busy.” We can feel ourselves given so much to this. I want the Lord to say again in this generation, “Of all that the Father gave to the Lord Jesus Christ, none were lost—except the Judases” (John 17:12).
Now Is The Release Into The Completeness Of What God Spoke
I have had a token fulfillment of great prophecies. The greater thing is yet to come. I loose it for the ministries who have gone through and borne the heat of the day, and who believe the Word. But now is to come the release—the release into more than a token, into the completeness of what God spoke, of a vision that burned in your heart and never subsided. In the heart there are not ashes; there are still hot coals burning with anticipation and faith.
The More This Is Imparted To Us, The Simpler The Doctrines Seem To Be
All of the teachings about joy in the Scriptures do not exceed one giggle in the Kingdom. Just one experiencing of it, one time that it is real to you—that’s what simplifies it.
The more you get into doctrines, the more complicated it is. But the more this is imparted to us, then the simpler the doctrines seem to be.
The Test
I suppose the test of how real what God has done in us is this: when the sheep go, do you curse them? Or do you believe for God to finish the life and the blessing in you that can heal them?
The Shepherds And Sheep, The Seers And Priests
The shepherds and sheep, the seers and the priests. Almost every priest is constantly ministering. And you realize that by trade or by occupation on the side, they were shepherds.
Hear It, Do It, Become It
There is No Truth in the Kingdom That Is Not Acted Upon Immediately
This has to be more than a textbook. It’s going to be a catalyst of impartation and creation in the Kingdom—because you’re going to get it and you’re going to minister it. The seers, the priests, the sons of God come to birth, and they come to birth functioning. The first thing that you must do is see that there is no truth in the Kingdom that is not acted upon immediately. There is nothing that you see that you do not appropriate and move in, instantly. If you get that one little secret, you’ve got something.
Hear It, Appropriate It, Act On It
There has to be this one thing—that you hear it and you appropriate it and you act on it, and from that time on it is real to you; you have become. You see, no longer do we teach to educate people. These services and these tapes will not be a textbook; they are a catalyst for impartation and creativity. Every one of them has to become a workshop whereby people become something in the Lord.
The Difference Between The Prophet And The Priest
This is the difference between the Church Age and the Kingdom. In the Church Age you are interested in preaching; almost everything is more or less related to preaching. But you get into the Kingdom and it changes from preaching to a teaching impartation—the difference between the prophet and the priest.
The thing that caused Israel to fail, II Chronicles 15:3 says, is that there was no teaching priest, because the priest was a ministering, functional thing to the people. He did more than say, “You sinned.” He imparted the sins to the lamb, killed the lamb, and got the people into something.
Preaching leads you to try to reform. But now what we are in, in the Kingdom, leads you to an impartation that is not reform; it has to be even more of a regeneration and a recreation than we know.
The Emphasis Is On What We Are Becoming Rather Than What We Are Proclaiming
In the Kingdom the emphasis is on what we are becoming rather than what we are proclaiming. It is a whole different aspect of things; although we have known these things to some extent, we have never been able to flow into them as we are now. I tell you truly, “The Kingdom of heaven is at hand” on a level that we have never known before (Matthew 4:17). And it’s a difficult thing to see, because it’s a very humbling thing.
All Good, Faithful Shepherds Are Promoted To The Rank Of Sheep
As we advance into each new level in the Kingdom, all good, faithful shepherds are promoted to the rank of sheep. And all sheep begin that loving care for each other. Out of that loving care for each other, and concern, comes that which creates the shepherds on the higher level. Thus the shepherds of the valley become eventually the shepherds of the hills.
Living In The Lord, In His Word, In Each Other, One In The Lord
People have not realized that God has brought them very low and purified their spirits so that they can be brought into a realm where all the fulfillment can be. All of the fulfillment is in that realm, try as you will to work it out in some other realm. But that promise about abiding in Him and His Words abiding in you, and asking what you will and it will be done unto you—that’s a pretty big promise (John 15:7). We concentrate on the wrong end of it—what we are going to get. But what we are going to get is just a by-product, just a little incidental thing compared to a state of being that is wonderful. He is talking about abiding; He is talking about Words of the Lord living in you, and you living in the Lord, and living in His Word, living in each other, one in the Lord.
Somebody Has To Do It For You
How are we going to become something? How are we going to be what God wants us to be? Not one of you can do it. But your brother can do it for you. And you can do it for your brother. If I preached something to you and said, “Now you try to get ahold of it and appropriate it,” and it ended there, it really would end there. But suppose I tell you, “Look, the key of the Kingdom is what we become in the new creation, in the new nature, in the breakthrough.” You say, “That’s wonderful. I’ve got to get down on my face and seek God for it.” No, in the Kingdom you can’t do it; somebody has to do it for you. Somebody has to do it for you. So the only thing that I can do for you, that really has mercy on your miserable souls, is to tell you the truth; and you say, “I want it.” And I say, “But you can’t get it that way. All you have to do is hear what I say, and believe it, and then you give it to me.”
You Can Believe For Your Brother More Than You Can Believe For Yourself
Do you know why you can believe for your brother more than you can believe for yourself? Because the divine order of things is that you will be more effective in ministering to your brother and your brother ministering to you than when you try to minister to yourself. It isn’t that you don’t believe; it’s just that you are not effective when you are trying to pray for yourself.
It Is More Blessed To Give Than To Receive
In oneness, you are constantly rejoicing in your capacity to travail for your brother and to bring him into something wonderful. You give concern to that, and the result of it is that you find yourself moving into it too. The creativity of God certainly honors the Scripture: “It is more blessed to give than to receive” (Acts 20:35).
If you set about to give to me as much as you can believe for—every promise, every Word over me, everything God is doing—and you set about with a determined faith that that is going to happen, and you say, “I’m not going to be satisfied until I see it,” there will be greater blessing on your giving than on my receiving.
The Seer And The Priest Will Be The Vanguard Of The Kingdom
I am still concerned about that seer-ministry. I want to break through until there will not be excursions into the spirit world, but to me there is going to be a conjunction of these two worlds until I am going to see as freely in the spirit world as I see in the natural world. What is going to happen is that when this breaks loose for one, it is going to break loose for all. We are going to see it. The seer and the priest will be the vanguard of the Kingdom; that’s what God is going to bring in. Old men shall dream dreams; young men shall see visions. The servants and handmaids shall prophesy, but the prophetic flow is not emphasized until after the seer-ministry and capacity—visions, dreams, seeing in the spirit (Joel 2:28–29). Do you want that?
The Kingdom Is Going To Be Born Of Action
The Kingdom is not a bunch of chipmunks with their mouths full of food. “Thy Word was found and I did eat it” (Jeremiah 15:16). You act on it; you do it! When you hear a tape, at the first convenient stopping place say, “Stop, let’s do it.” Don’t say, “Let’s talk about it. Let’s pray about it. Let’s see if we accept it. Let’s rebuke our unbelief.” Take whatever faith you have and act on it. The Kingdom is going to be born of action.
Never A Teaching Without A Doing
Isn’t it interesting that you have Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John; and then you have the Acts of the Apostles. And it’s a story “of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach”(Acts 1:1). There never was a teaching without a doing. The great breakdown in the Church Age is that they preach for an hour and then dismiss the people. They should preach for thirty minutes and take thirty minutes to put it into action. Nobody should walk out without it.
I think that this is the delusion of Babylon, that they can hear orthodox teaching, real, sound doctrine, and automatically assume that they’ve got it, without any great change taking place in their lives.
In the Kingdom, all intercession will be impartation. Don’t just pray—do it.
Every Worship Service Should Be Followed By An Action Service
It’s one thing to have Communion and worship and revelation, but I think every worship service should be followed by an action service. We don’t just love in word; we love in deed (I John 3:18).
Faith Is An Activity
You are going to hear about impartation. You say, “Well, I’m going to struggle to believe it.” Don’t just believe it—do it. Faith is not a matter of mental acceptance or working it up; faith is a matter of action. Faith is an activity. Faith isn’t acquiescing, agreeing to a truth. When it comes to that kind of belief, the devils believe and tremble (James 2:18–20). I may believe with my mind the same thing the devils believe, but I go further: I believe it so much that I am going to cast those devils out!
We create a deeper awareness that you are moving in that seer-prophet ministry. We create it this night. We say that you see beyond your eyes. You see beyond the vision of a natural man. We draw it for you, John. It’s your portion and we create it for you tonight.
We proclaim that with the sight comes the understanding, that the Word is so real in this, that you can see right in and you will be able to explain exactly what is happening. You will see the interpretation come. You are not just gazing, but you’re hitting the mark.
John, we complete the teaching priest ministry that you move in by opening up the seer-prophet ministry within you. We speak that blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God (Matthew 5:8). John, your heart has been pure in the way you have taught the sheep, and we speak now that you see to the very heart of the sheep. Your obedience has been made perfect. We say that now the Lord opens the door of perception—seeing. It is the conjunction of two ages; that which is invisible to the human eye is made manifest and openly known to His bondservant.
This is a creative miracle flow tonight. We say this is the greater works—this is greater than anything Christ ever did (John 14:12). We are creating something that man has not seen in the earth before; but our faith is laying hold of it. It’s a miracle flow tonight. We are creating a miracle in this man, Lord. You are going to honor our faith tonight. We create the seer-prophet in the earth in the name of the Lord.
The days of going into the spirit and being hit in the flesh are over. We proclaim that it is a time of resurrection life. It is the day in which the witchcraft has no effect on you to stop the seer-prophet ministry. Your body is not going to be a battleground any longer.
Oneness Is Forever
I believe with all my heart that oneness is forever. There are some things that God does that create a permanent thing in your spirit that never changes. How much more will be that oneness with Him, and that oneness with each other?
Oneness Does Not Eliminate The Diversities
Oneness does not eliminate the diversities of expression or the way we move; but we do all speak the same thing. You marvel at it that God can move on us, and we can all retain the diversity and differences of people and yet all speak the same and be one thing in God.
Faith That Works By Love—The Key Of The New Creation
Nothing is more important than that “faith that works by love,” because that is the key of the whole new creation (Galatians 5:6; 6:15). We can’t work it up. Galatians is devoted to one thing: The works of the Law will never do it, but the only thing that avails is faith that works by love. Oh, we ought to seek for the gift of faith, the gift of love! When we do, we are actually believing for God and us to be so one that we move in every attribute He has from that time on. And we create that in one another.
Faith Has A Double Prerogative To Accept Or Reject
Faith has a double prerogative. Faith determines what we are going to accept or claim, and faith determines what we are going to reject. That is the privilege of my faith. What I don’t have to accept, I don’t accept; what I can accept, I have the right to accept in the Lord. You do that—what you accept for me, what you reject, is going to be a part of my life.