BREAKING THROUGH FROM BELIEF TO EXPERIENCE
9/13/24 BREAKING THROUGH FROM BELIEF TO EXPERIENCE
FAITH TO ENTER IN
HEARD: Faith to enter in. You shall be astounded at all I have planned for you. Dear one, dear heart. Fret not. My good gifts and goodness will abound in your life. Keep seeking Me, I am there for you.
CONFIRMATION WORD TO PONDER: FAITH DETERMINES COOPERATION
There are many things that operate in My realm which you are unaware of in yours. To the exact degree you believe, is the exact degree that I reveal things to you. My dear one, your faith does matter. Your faith is very precious to Me. It is your faith which determines your level of cooperation with My ways. It is your faith which connects you to partner with Me in ushering My kingdom upon earth. Resist doubt. Resist unbelief. Resist wavering. Do not listen to the voices that say it cant be done. Yes it can, says Your God. Do you trust in the words of men, or in My Words? Hang on and cling to Me. I AM your Source. I AM your resource. I AM all you need. So let the faith in your God, Who has brought you thus far, complete that which was begun. Cooperate with Me and lets see our way through this together.
Heb 11:3 AMP
By faith we understand that the worlds [during the successive ages] were framed (fashioned, put in order, and equipped for their intended purpose) by the word of God, so that what we see was not made out of things which are visible.
BIBLE TIME: This morning I was listening to and reading Acts where an angel delivered Peter from prison. I considered the irony of how Peter thought the angel delivering him from prison was a vision and not real. And then when he knocked on his friend’s door, they thought it was an angel and not the real Peter.
Acts 12:9-11 And he went out, and followed him; and knew not that it was TRUE which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision. 10 When they were past the first and the second guard, they came unto the iron gate that leads unto the city; which opened to them of its own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and immediately the angel departed from him. 11 And when Peter had come to himself, he said, Now I know of a SURETY, that the Lord has sent his angel, and has delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.
Acts 12:13-15 And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a maid came to answer, named Rhoda. 14 And when she knew Peter’s voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate. 15 And they said unto her, You are mad. But she continued to affirm that it was so. Then they said, It is his angel.
When I looked up the word TRUE AND SURETY, I saw that true means not concealed. And the word surety comes from the same word, not concealed. What is not concealed is FULLY MANIFEST.
TRUE: NOT CONCEALING (MANIFEST)
Strong’s Greek Dictionary
ἀληθής alethes (alēthḗs)
Search for G227 in KJVSL; in KJV; load in ESI.
ἀληθής alēthḗs, al-ay-thace’
from G1 (as a negative particle) and G2990; true (as not concealing):—true, truly, truth.
Adjective
SURETY: TRUTH, COMING FROM THE WORD NOT CONCEALED
Strong’s Greek Dictionary
ἀληθῶς alethos (alēthōs)
Search for G230 in KJVSL; in KJV; load in ESI.
ἀληθῶς alēthōs, al-ay-thoce’
adverb from G227; truly:—indeed, surely, of a surety, truly, of a (in) truth, verily, very.
adverb
QUESTION: Why did both Peter and his friends not recognize what was being manifest, until they had tangible proof? Although this could be a lack of faith, it is more likely due to their expectations based on what they knew and experienced. They had seen a whole lot more spiritual visions of angels then seeing angels that were tangibly manifest in their physical world. The Lord is wanting to move us from what we believe to what we experience.
PRAYER: Lord, as Your kingdom grows inside of us, we continue to seek You, Your Word and partnering with You in doing Your will. We know our destiny is that Your kingdom within us will one day become fully manifest. This is the work we believed in all along, that we saw and believed through Your Spirit. We ask that when it comes Your time to manifest and no longer conceal the good work You have been doing within us, that You give us grace to break through the walls of our past mindsets and expectations. That You bring us through the walls of faith into the tangible evidence of what we already have seen and heard in Your Spirit. Let us know and experience Your Word as being manifest on earth just as You have decreed from heaven. Hallelujah, prepare us for breaking through into the tangible.
Hebrews 11:1-3 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained approval. 3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
9/04/24 BATTLE CRY TO BREAK THROUGH THE WALLS OF RELUCTANCE
HEARD AND SAW: Draw a conclusion. Go forth and conquer. I saw a very big wall of books with a huge computer monitor in the middle of it. It was the entrance wall into our local restaurant of fine dining by the river. I heard a man who was standing behind the wall of books. He suddenly made this loud war cry to holler a triumph to the Lord. He took a flying leap and crashed through the wall of books and then stepped down the 3 steps onto the floor of the restaurant.
Romans 8:18-19 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creation waits for the manifestation of the sons of God.
