Come
Up Higher!
We
must come up higher! As we journey on in the path laid
out before us by God there can be a tendency to get
comfortable and be content at a certain level that we
have attained in the Lord. But God wants us to continue
into a deeper, more intimate and more experiential place
in Him. There is so much that He has for us and so much
that we have not experienced of the realities of His
Kingdom that there must continually be a fire and passion
to pursue “more” that He has for every believer
and our live personally.
Godliness
with contentment is great gain. But that contentment
has to do with the things of this world, not with the
things of God. We are to eagerly desire spiritual gifts,
pray continually and believe for the impossible to be
made possible. We are content with Him in our lives,
but at the same time pressing in for that which we have
not experienced in Him. For this to occur we must REALIZE
that there is MUCH that we have not yet experienced.
The wonderful thing is that God never runs out of experiential
encounters for our lives!
There
must be something in us that reaches out for the unseen
realm to come into being in our lives. Faith is the
key that opens the door to God’s Kingdom reality.
We are not to live by the shadow or the shell, but the
substance of the shadow that is cast from the power
of God’s Spirit. The Book of Hebrews speaks of
Jesus being the substance and the “better”
of what was just a “shadow” and “pictures”
of Him through the Old Covenant. Now, through Jesus,
we have been given that substance through the deposit
of the Spirit in our hearts. Jesus walked in the realities
of the Kingdom of God. He released the Kingdom wherever
He went. It is our mandate to do the same, just as He
did. The scripture says that He “manifested His
glory”. So when a released of the power of God’s
Spirit occurred this was God’s Kingdom being released
to break the chains of oppression of the devil’s
dark kingdom.
We
now have this treasure in earthen vessels – the
surpassing glory of God. It is this glory that transforms
others and us. It is a tangible substance. We don’t
experience the Kingdom of God by obeying a list of do’s
and don’ts. We fulfill the law by being filled
with the Spirit. Yielding to Him to come and dwell in
us. As we are filled, we can become conduits to see
other filled and if others are filled then the earth
can be filled with the glory of His Presence . . . Let’s
move up into another place of His glory, a “higher
plane of experiential revelation” as we move from
the current plateau that we are on.
