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RHEMA 12/04/12 WHAT TREASURE IS HOLDING YOU BACK?
HEARD: I am so sorry I could not run away
with You.
[When I heard this, I felt great sorrow accompanying it,
although I had no idea what it meant at that moment.]
[Lord what are You saying?]
INTO REMEMBRANCE: [The Holy Spirit brings into
remembrance what He has spoken.] But the Helper, the
Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He
will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance
all things that I said to you. John 14:26 26
The Holy Spirit bought these scriptures into my memory:
SS 1:4 Draw me away! We will run after you.
SS2:8,9
The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes leaping
upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. 9 My
beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, he
stands behind our wall; He is looking through the
windows, gazing through the lattice. 10 My beloved
spoke, and said to me: "Rise up, my love, my fair one,
and come away.
HEARD: I stand at the door and knock.
Footsteps. A powerful encounter. On our knees. Where
are you taking us?
HEARD SONG: There is a river that flows deep
within.
HEARD: I’m in here.
Deut 30: 11-14
For this commandment which I command you today is not
too mysterious for you, nor is it far off. 12 It is not
in heaven, that you should say, 'Who will ascend into
heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it
and do it? ' 13 Nor is it beyond the sea, that you
should say, 'Who will go over the sea for us and bring
it to us, that we may hear it and do it? ' 14 But the
word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart,
that you may do it.
Rom 10:8
But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your
mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith
which we preach)
BREAK BREAD WITH SIMPLICITY 8/11/12
Precious ones, I hear your continual knocking for
greater visions and experiences. You DO know they are
coming and when they come, it will be in a season such
as none has ever experienced. These will be for My
purpose and yes I have placed it in your hearts to
continue to pray for and pursue these things. Trust Me,
I have heard EVERY request.
It is also important to Me that you learn to be content
and abide in simple fellowship every day. The daily
bread I give you is not only very near you, it is in
your mouth and in your heart. I AM that close. You
don’t need to jump to heaven in order to find Me and
experience great joys and comfort of fellowship by
coming up here. I AM with you, I will never, ever leave
you and I live inside of you. Let us continue daily in
oneness, dwelling together in our temple. Let us break
bread together with gladness and simplicity.
Acts 2:46-47
So continuing daily with one accord in the temple,
and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their
food with gladness and simplicity of heart, praising God
and having favor with all the people.
I understood the above, that Jesus simply wants us to
abide in Him and not try to jump to heaven. But I have
been so deeply wanting access to come and go into the
Spirit realm of heaven because I know it is available
for our generation according to this promise:
Zech 3: 1-7 NKJV
Vision of the High Priest 1 Then he showed me Joshua
the high priest standing before the Angel of the Lord,
and Satan standing at his right hand to oppose him. 2
And the Lord said to Satan, "The Lord rebuke you,
Satan! The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you!
Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?" 3 Now Joshua
was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing
before the Angel. 4 Then He answered and spoke to those
who stood before Him, saying, "Take away the filthy
garments from him." And to him He said, " See, I have
removed your iniquity from you, and I will clothe you
with rich robes." 5 And I said, "Let them put a clean
turban on his head." So they put a clean turban on his
head, and they put the clothes on him. And the Angel of
the Lord stood by. The Coming Branch 6 Then the Angel
of the Lord admonished Joshua, saying, 7 "Thus says the
Lord of hosts: "If
you will walk in My ways, And if you will keep My
command, Then you shall also judge My house, And
likewise have charge of My courts; I will give you
places to walk Among these who stand here.
UPDATE FROM NEVILLE 12/07/12 YOUR LEVEL OF
CONSECRATION
Neville
shared his vision
that lead me deeper into my
question:
THE VISION OF THE BOND SERVANT
One more thing. I just sat down to watch the news and
suddenly I am in another place. I am in a passport
place in an airport. Passport control. I noticed the
passport officer is an angel. I was thinking where is
this airport? People were coming up and he would say
“Passport please” and then said, no sorry you cant come
through. He said but I’m a deacon. So I am getting
further back now because I don’t have a password. The
next people came up and he said passport please, and
they said we don’t have a passport and the angel said
show me your ear. He had a close look and said yes you
can come through. And the door became translucent, like
Stargate, a bit like that without the noise. And they
walked straight through it. I thought wow, what is this
place?
So the angel looked straight at me and said you. I
thought here we go and I said I don’t have a passport.
And he said, Show me your ear. So I showed him my ear
and he said you can go in. I said, whats on my ear? He
said nothing, but there is a hole in it. And then it
dawned on me… a bondservant!
I said whats behind that door? He said the heavenly
realm, you can go in and out as you wish. I said try
this out and I walked through it and I’m in heaven. I
turned around and put my hand through and walked back
out again and I’m in the passport place. I said Lord
You are trying to teach me something here aren’t you?
He said the entrance into the heavenly realms He wants
to open to us in a greater way, a much greater way. But
you’ve got to have a hole in your ear.
In the OT servants could work for a master for 7 years,
but they could go free. But if the servant said I love
it here, I love my family and love to be a part of this
and want to be your servant forever, they said OK. They
put the ear against the doorpost and the guy takes an
awl, like a nail punch and then whack there is a big
hole in your ear. And now you are a bonded servant.
There are 2 kinds of servants, there are servants and
bond servants. The servants got paid wages and could do
anything he wanted to do with them and do what he wanted
to do what he wanted on his days off. He could marry
anyone he wishes. But the bondservant he has a hole in
his ear, it is an ear exclusively to his master’s
voice. He is not paid any wages. But the master of the
house will provide everything that he needs. He didn’t
have a day off. He could not just marry anyone, only whom
the master approved for him. He cannot own anything.
We own stuff and that’s alright, but we should keep it
for the Lord, it is not ours. We hold it in trust for
His purposes…. We are talking about a major consecration
here.
QUICKENED SCRIPTURE: As I was still praying over
these things, He brought to me the story about the guy
who was sorrowing because he could not sell his stuff to
follow the Lord.
Mark 10:17-22 NKJV
Now as He was going out on the road, one came
running, knelt before Him, and asked Him, " Good
Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal
life?" 18 So Jesus said to him, " Why do you call Me
good? No one is good but One, that is, God. 19 You know
the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery, ' 'Do not
murder, ' 'Do not steal, ' 'Do not bear false witness, '
'Do not defraud, ' ' Honor your father and your mother.
'" 20 And he answered and said to Him, " Teacher, all
these things I have kept from my youth." 21 Then Jesus,
looking at him, loved him, and said to him, " One thing
you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give
to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and
come, take up the cross, and follow Me." 22
But he was sad at this
word, and went away sorrowful, for he had great
possessions.
Was Jesus telling us that in order to get into heaven we
have to sell all of our stuff? No, Jesus was actually
addressing the word TREASURE. He said that where our
treasure is, there is our heart also. Jesus was
addressing the man’s heart and what held him back from
freely following the Him.
Matt 6:19-21 NKJV
" Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth,
where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in
and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in
heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where
thieves do not break in and steal. 21
For where your treasure
is, there your heart will be also.
 Every person has a different treasure. To some it might
be eating candy, to some it might be owning a certain
automobile. To another it might be a workaholic
lifestyle. To another it might be watching ballgames or
movies. To another it might be their yard. To another
it might be buying stuff and hording. To another it
might be lots of money and vacations. To another it
might be sleeping. To another it might be not giving the
Lord time. The list goes on and on and on and on. What
desires do you spend most of your time, money and
thoughts upon?
I am reminded of Bob Jone’s experience when he died and
went to heaven. The Lord showed him 2 lines of people,
those going to hell and those going into the door of
heaven. Those going to hell were wrapped inside the
idols they served in life, with only their heads
showing. These treasures became snares for them which
eventually took their souls.
Psalm 106:36 NKJV
They served their idols, which became a snare to
them.
Mark 8: 33-37 NKJV
33 But when he had turned about and looked on his
disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me,
Satan: for thou
savourest not the things that be of God, but the things
that be of men. 34 And when he had called the
people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto
them, Whosoever will
come after me, let him deny himself,
and take up his cross, and follow me. 35 For whosoever
will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall
lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same
shall save it. 36
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the
whole world, and lose his own soul? 37 Or what shall a
man give in exchange for his soul? 38
Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my
words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him
also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in
the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
GIVE
g1325. διδωμι didomi; a prolonged form of a primary verb
( which is used as an alternative in most of the
tenses); to give ( used in a very wide
application, properly, or by implication, literally or
figuratively; greatly modified by the connection): —
adventure, bestow, bring forth,
commit, deliver ( up),
give, grant, hinder, make, minister, number, offer, have
power, put, receive, set, shew, smite (+ with the hand),
strike (+ with the palm of the hand), suffer, take,
utter, yield.
EXCHANGE
g0465. ανταλλαγμα antallagma; from a compound of 473 and
236; an equivalent or ransom: — in exchange.
AV (2)- in exchange 2;
that which is given in place of another thing
by way of exchange what
is given either in order to keep or to acquire anything
When we become bondservants to the Lord, we relinquish
our rights to people, places, things - what is freely
given to the just and unjust. We simply lay it all down
before Him and give Him back all our rights. As Job
said, the Lord gives and He takes away, blessed be the
name of the Lord.
Job 1:21 NKJV
The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; Blessed
be the name of the Lord.
Job was tested in those things. Few are testing as he
was. However the Holy Spirit has a way of spotlighting
exactly what door is lurking in our heart that steals
our zeal, affection, time away from the Lord and what
matters to Him.
Lord I know You grant us many promotions as we grow up
and mature in You. Please give us grace to release
things that hold us back from entering into Your kingdom
and finally graduating into our next promotion in Jesus
name. We give them over into Your care, knowing You
give and take away and can give them back again when
they no longer have a hold on our souls. Hallelujah! |
