Interpretation: Knowledge and Quickening
INTERPRETATION THROUGH BALANCING KNOWLEDGE WITH QUICKENING
Scripture says that in these last days knowledge shall increase. This has exploded with the availability of the internet.
Dan 12:3-4 NLT
Those who are wise will shine as bright as the sky, and those who turn many to righteousness will shine like stars forever. But you, Daniel, keep this prophecy a secret; seal up the book until the time of the end. Many will rush here and there, and knowledge will increase.
The Lord uses knowledge to teach us and there is nothing wrong with accumulating a knowledge base in the language of spiritual interpretation. However there is a difference between having an interpretative language of the mind and having an interpretative language of the Spirit. Yet, they can join in balance to communicate exactly what the Holy Spirit is saying.
Learning a spiritual language of interpretation does happen with the intellect. He says, “Come let us reason together.” He enjoys that kind of relationship with us. However, many go no farther, they know the Lord only with their minds. The Lord uses our knowledge to communicate with us, yet the joy of relationship comes from deep within the heart.
The balance of developing a language of the heart and not just of the mind, is to develop it WITH HIM through the unfolding process of quickening and revelation. Quickening makes something heard relevant and fits a need. Revelation is the fact the Lord has been there, and only now have you just realized it!
In learning the language of interpretation, it is essential to place quickening as the priority, with knowledge following behind. With knowledge first, one is vulnerable to missing the mark because one can read into life what the Lord is not saying. It is possible for one to become so adept at applying the language of interpretation, that one sees every detail of life as a word from the Lord. Only details QUICKENED by the Holy Spirit bring life. Joseph said, “Do not interpretations come from God?” If we acquire all the language vocabulary of definitions, and He has not spoken, we prophesy falsely, hearing out of the imaginations of our own souls. We cannot separate His Presence of quickening (and revelation) from the knowledge of a language.
WORD TO PONDER: LISTEN AND COME ALIVE
When I speak to My people, I have given them the hearts to receive what I say, because when they hear My voice, it is mixed with faith. Those who do not belong to Me do not hear My voice, neither are they able to follow Me because what they hear is not mixed with faith.
Through one small lesson at a time, I AM teaching you to recognize My voice in your life. I speak in so many ways that are small and humble. And yet, in My Kingdom, they are power packed with life. All of heaven and earth wait for My manifold wisdom to be understood as your listening is mixed with faith and revelation. You do not understand the full significance of this, dear one. But let it be known that your walk of faith brings the darkness to My feet. Thank you for seeking My Word and trusting Me.
“…But my heart stands in awe of Your word. I rejoice at Your word as one who finds great treasure.” (Ps 119:161-162 NKJV)
INTERPRETATION THROUGH PUZZLING TOGETHER ACCUMULATED KNOWLEDGE
The Lord brought a picture to my mind of a beautiful snow-white bird. Not having any understanding, I waited upon Him for days without any insight. Finally, I went to the library. Not even knowing its name, I found it in a picture dictionary of birds. Amazing facts were quickened to me, pinpointing exactly where I was in circumstances with the Lord.
I would not have received the blessing, if I had not pursued the available means to understand. I felt nothing spiritual about my getting in the car and driving to the library. However the Word says, “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” I was not aware at the time of being led by the Holy Spirit to go to the library. It was only later in my PONDERING that the Holy Spirit quickened that scripture to me.
It takes two to have a relationship, and the two need to have the same language. Developing a language requires gathering knowledge. We can use Websters, Ungers, Strong’s, and whatever else is available to seek understanding. It’s simply a matter of using our mind.
The greater our knowledge of that subject, the greater the possibilities for understanding more of what He is saying. For example, when the Lord told me to consider the butterfly: I first thought of the fact it transforms itself through various stages. I connected that with the idea that I would do the same. But later, as my knowledge of those stages increased, so did my understanding of what the Lord was doing in my life.
Isa 1:18 NKJV
“Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the LORD…
2 Tim 2:15 AMP
Study and be eager and do your utmost to present yourself to God approved (tested by trial), a workman who has no cause to be ashamed, correctly analyzing and accurately dividing [rightly handling and skillfully teaching] the Word of Truth.
AMAZING EXAMPLE OF HOW
A LITTLE BIT OF KNOWLEDGE OPENS A WHOLE NEW WORLD OF UNDERSTANDING
OPENING THE PORTHOLE TO HEAVEN
~ What the Lord told me when I received the Baptism of the Spirit ~
When people receive the gift of speaking in tongues, not everyone receives in the same way. For myself, I went to kids camp in my teens and was prayed over to receive what they called the “Baptism of the Holy Spirit” (Acts 1:5) I was supposed to feel the Holy Spirit come upon me, then speak in tongues. I felt nothing when they prayed. I was expecting some bolt of lightening to come down from the sky and hit me in a whoosh of the Holy Spirit. But they simply prayed, and I simply thanked Jesus like they told me to do.
However, an hour later as I lay in my bunk bed, little foreign sounding syllables popped into my mind. So, I spoke them with my head under the pillow. It was one sentence. My counselor told me that could happen, and to be faithful to practice my new language and it would grow. So that is what I did. I spoke my one sentence faithfully for about a year! To this day, I still remember that sentence.
Then one day I was driving to school singing a popular love song along with the radio, and the second verse was sung in French. So I started singing my own pretend “French” to the words. By the end of the song, I had a complete and wonderful language, only I didn’t know it! However, every time I sang that song I would sing it in my “pretend language” even when they were singing in English. It sounded so beautiful I didn’t want to sing it in English. Then one day I started singing other popular love songs of the day in the same way. Then the realization hit me, I was doing what the Bible called “singing in the Spirit”! (1 Corinthians 14:15) “Wow! Is this finally the expansion of my new language?” So I stopped singing and just spoke it. Sure enough, there was a full blown language!
Now, not everyone will struggle as hard as I did. The reason it took me so long was because of doctrinal currents against me. I was told speaking in tongues was of the devil and that the occult speaks in tongues. It didn’t seem to connect with me that Paul in the Bible spoke in tongues all the time. (1 Corinthians 14:18) The only reason I had the courage to receive it, was because of the loving counsel of a dear lady who shined with the love of God. I felt that if she could love me like that, and she spoke in tongues, then she certainly wasn’t of the devil. Simply put, I knew the devil couldn’t love and she was no devil.
Since that time long ago, now that I am fluent in the spiritual gifts, I have come to realize that the devil can not create. Only God can create. The devil only mimics, only copies the real thing. So of course the occult speaks in tongues, that’s because God created the real speaking in tongues!
I have received a couple of wonderful confirmations about speaking in tongues. One time I was praying in tongues and in English over people I’d met on the Internet and I saw a picture-vision of a flat bed truck driven by 2 angels. On the flat bed truck were a whole bunch of packages, each wrapped and looking exactly like the size of bricks. The Lord told me I was dispatching supplies. So I asked Him what those bricks were. He said, “Each individual prayer.” Then a few days later I listened to a tape where a man was given a vision that every time he spoke in tongues, he saw packages the size of bricks come down from heaven that were deposited inside of him. When they were deposited, he felt a strengthening of his inner man. He was praying supplies for himself. So, not only did the Lord confirm that my praying in tongues was praying in supplies to others, but at the same time, I was praying in supplies for myself.
I have an interesting story about praying in supplies for others. Remember that one little sentence I mentioned when I first received tongues? When I shared it with Anna, my Mom, who also had been indoctrinated against tongues, she said it sounded like Spanish and looked it up in her old Spanish dictionary. She was so surprised at the meaning, she also sought and received the Baptism of the Spirit.
Twenty-five years after that, having completely forgotten its meaning, Anna happened to ask me if I still remembered my one little sentence. I spoke what I remembered and she again looked up the words in her old Spanish dictionary, and this is what she found; my sentence was translated, “Door of a port hole released. They eat with Daddy.” This was my commission from the beginning. I didn’t know I was repeating a request thousands upon thousands of times. I was bombarding heaven and didn’t even know it! I believe part of that fulfillment is the opened doors to teaching others how God speaks. It is a good lesson in the importance of tongues.
[Speaking in tongues are languages of both men and angels]
1 Cor 13:1 NKJV
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels , but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
Acts 2:11-12 NKJV
…we hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.” So they were all amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “Whatever could this mean?”
