Taking Our
Walk with God to the Next Level
Recently,
two things happened in my life that caused me to look at myself. One, is a need to examine myself to determine
if I am at the level God’s wants me to be in my relationship with Him (2
Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves as
to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know
yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? —unless indeed you are disqualified). Second, I met with two wonderful men of
God. As we discussed ministering to
others, the subject of how we minister came up.
The subject matter was this: Do you minister differently with certain
individuals that are mature in the Lord?
The answer for me was yes, because there are those who are not mature
enough to understand how we are praying or teaching. The underlining thought was we did not want
to offend the less mature for fear they would think that we are absurd or
miss-guided. Bottom line is we are
having to minister at different levels.
The Gospels
show that Jesus was forthright in His message to the people during His
ministry. Yes, He did have to speak in
parables in many situations to get the message across, but overall, He was
blunt in His message. He spoke the
truth, which better equipped His disciples to spread the uncompromised Word of
God. Jesus and His Apostles went out
boldly spreading the Word without fear.
I believe we are in the last days and this is
a time when God is pouring out treasures of wisdom. The apostolic and prophetic era in which we
are living is bringing us new dimensions of Jesus’ light. The Scriptures are being understood with far
greater clarity. There is an
unprecedented revelation of the power and manifestation of the Kingdom
of God.
God is
raising a spiritual Remnant Army of people who understand the spiritual arena
and are willing to operate in the fullness of the Holy Spirit here on earth. It
is those who receive and operate in the Holy Spirit that will receive a higher
level of understanding, wisdom, knowledge discernment, revelation, visions,
prophesy, power, authority and especially the love and compassion that God and
Jesus has for us.
The level of
revelation depends on the level of love and commitment we have to
witness God’s Word on the earth. We must
also understand the pain God suffers as He watches the world being dragged to
hell. He sees how afraid we are to
spread the Gospel in its fullness. He
sees a watered-down message from His people that is contrary to what He expects
of us. Jesus and His Apostles did not deliver
a watered-down message.
1 Corinthians 2:9 “Eye has not
seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which
God has prepared for those who love Him.”
God desires
to reveal to us the deep things of His Kingdom.
The light and understanding of the mysteries of God are revealed to us
in the measure that we walk with Him in love.
Colossians 1:9 For this reason we also, since the
day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be
filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual
understanding;
God in His
grace supplies all of that we lack, but He also desires to fill us with
knowledge and wisdom. His hope for us is
to be mature children with spiritual intelligence
Colossians 2:2-3 that their hearts may be encouraged,
being knit together in love, and attaining
to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the
mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ, in whom are
hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
The Lord has
things for us that have not been revealed to other generations. God expects the Church to grow from glory to
glory and from light to light.
John 16:12 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
There are
things we cannot handle because of our immaturity, our hardness of heart, or
our religious doctrine. Jesus knows
which revelations we may or may not be able to understand.
When Jesus
ascended into Heaven, He could not tell His disciples all that He would have
liked to share. However, He gave the
promise of the Holy Spirit to teach us all things and to help us understand the
things Jesus said and to do greater things than He (John 14:12…whoever believes
in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things
than these…). This means
that the Holy Spirt brings us different depths of teaching, in accordance with
the level of our spiritual growth. A
growth the Body of Christ has to encourage.
A person who aspires to great spiritual wisdom and intelligence must
spend more time with Him than with the distractions of this world. This individual must love God and others and
seek answers from the Holy Spirit (Psalms 91:15 He shall call upon Me, and
I will answer him). Then the
things that “eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of
man” (1 Corinthians 2:9) will be
revealed.
God has
things that have never entered our hearts, yet He wants to reveal them to us (But
rise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to
make you a minister and a witness both of the things which you have seen and of
the things which I will yet reveal
to you Acts 26:16). They are
biblical and they have always been in the Scriptures, but they have been closed
and veiled until we are ready to receive.
Luke 8:10 And He said, “To you it has been given to know the mysteries of
the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is given in
parables, that ‘Seeing they may not see, And hearing they may not
understand.
We have entered a prophetic era
and must understand these things. God is
empowering this generation with more understanding than those of the past. The Word of God is being revealed in a higher
way, to advance the Kingdom of God more effectively.
Many agree that we are in the
last days. What I don’t hear is that we
are prepared for the coming of Jesus Christ.
A question to ask ourselves is: Are we are prepared for the extreme evil
and darkness that will manifest prior to His coming? My position is, Believers do not know the
level of spiritual warfare knowledge needed now or for the future when the level
of darkness increases. There will be a time
when Satan comes with his army of demons and their manifestation of evil through
men. We have little time and no choice
but to prepare the flock for the battle now and the days to come. It is critical that we know our authority and
power in the name of Jesus that will allow us to persevere until the time of His
coming.
We (individuals, leaders, and the
church) must take our current walk with God to a higher level. We are tasked to teach and preach the
uncompromised Word of God without fear of offending others or worrying about
what they may think of us. God says do
not fear man. Psalms 56:11 In God I have put my trust; I will
not be afraid. What can man do to me?
The simple conclusion is this: We
must walk according to the spirit of God.
We must love one another, be firm in the truth, and correct the Body in
light of the soon coming of Jesus Christ.
It is time to take our walk with God to a higher level.
Blessings to you all,
Tony Sanchez, 12-28-16
