FACING A MOUNTAIN?  BE OBEDIENT  5/02/12

I received the following Word over someone in the Corporate Prophesy Room and knew this was a Word for us all.  (Peter and Joseph received personal Words that were shared and the Words were fulfilled as corporate Words.)

HEARD:  Mountain.  Just one sentence.  Be obedient.  There you have it.

[Driving out of town, again praying over this]

QUICKENED EYE GLANCE:  I saw a sign called, Main street.

IMPRESSION:  Let the main thing be the main thing.

QUICKENED MEMORY:  I remembered hearing the phrase “Just one sentence” this morning and felt the Lord was pointing to just one Word He wanted to speak and that was about being obedient.

IMPRESSION:  You are facing a Mt in your life, something that you have circled many times and the Lord is saying that the way past this Mt is to be obedient.  This Mt is an opposition to keep you from getting where you are wanting to go.  If you are like me in myself facing mts, this is about a change in mindset.  Every one of us have mindsets.  Mindsets are strongholds in the way we think that keep us locked in circular patterns that don’t change.  The only way to change those places is to line up with God’s way of thinking.  One mindset might be that you think some trial is of the devil when it is actually God’s way of knocking on your door to become obedient in that area and to change the way you either think or approach such.

Being willing is the idea of listening to those places that are causing tension in your life, and bowing low in humility to line up with His Word.  Examine your own heart, allow Him to search you and spotlight those places in your life.  This is for your good, so the mountains that you are praying about will be removed.  Change is never easy, but it is much easier when we have been shown a way out through obedience in whatever area God is speaking about.

Prov 16:7 NKJV

When a man's ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Heb 5:8 NKJV

Though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.

HEARD:  Be obedient.

2 Cor 10:4-6  NKJV

For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, 6 and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.

QUESTION: DID JESUS SUFFER WARFARE?

Yes, Jesus faced opposition.  Demons opposed Him.  But because Jesus was obedient to the Father, the devils were obedient to Jesus.  Jesus simply rebuked them, told them to shut up and to go. 

Jesus escaped the evil plots of men until it was “His time.”  He did have opposition from men but was given ways to escape such.  However it was the Father’s will that Jesus suffer and die and so that doesn’t mean that even if we please God in everything, that we will be given ways to escape opposition from men.  Jesus always did His Father’s will and lived to please Him.

John 4:34-35

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.

Thou art My Beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased. 

Jesus had passion to be one with the Father.  He was driven by His love for His Father.  It was all about His relationship with His Father. 

John 8:28-30

Then Jesus said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things.  29 And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him."  30 As He spoke these words, many believed in Him.

Matt 3:17

And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."

Rom 5:19

For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous.

Phil 2:8-9

And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. 9

ABOUT FACING OPPOSITION

I am reminded of the show, The Dog Whisperer.  Dogs have to have permission from the pack leader to come into their intimate space.  Otherwise they hold themselves at bay until they are invited in.  The way a dog tells another dog to get out of their private space is facing them directly with eye contact in an assertive way.  When a pack leader turns away, it allows the pack to approach him. 

We must face our opponents and tell them to go.  Jesus told us to speak to the Mt and it will be removed.  If we want these opponents in our life, we ignore them and don’t give them any attention and then they come and trespass because we let them.  If we want the authority to have influence over those Mts, it comes through obedience.

APPLICATION:  I prayed about how to resolve the Mts, this scripture came to me:

Phil 4:8 KJV

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

I perceive that the thing the Lord is asking you to be obedient about, relates to that verse.  This relates to your thinking patterns and things that you dwell on, possibly even what you read.  I feel that the Lord loves you so much and has been wanting to give you this understanding, so that the Mt in your life will be removed and it is His love that has targeted this area to help you overcome.

My sense is that He is pleased with your progress as you have submitted to Him in overcoming your Mts and this is just another spotlight identifying such.  He loves the fact that you want to please Him and He sees your life as a journey and is not disappointed in your ups and downs.  He believes in you much more than you believe in yourself!  And He IS answering your prayers, it is just in ways that are strong meat, such as this Word.

PRAYER:  Lord I pray that You will help us judge ourselves, and see those places where our thought patterns are not lining up with Your way of thinking.  Help us to realign with Your Word in scripture and over our lives, so that whatever Mts we are facing can finally be overcome in Jesus Name.

2 Cor 13:5-6 AMP

Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves [not Christ]. Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you — unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected? 6 But I hope you will recognize and know that we are not disapproved on trial and rejected.