3 Who may ascend into
the hill of the LORD?
And who may stand in
His holy place?
4 He who has clean
hands and a pure heart,
Who has not lifted up
his soul to falsehood
And has not sworn
deceitfully.
5 He shall receive a
blessing from the LORD
And righteousness from
the God of his salvation.
6 This is the
generation of those who seek Him,
Who seek Your face—even Jacob. Selah.
(Psalms 24:3-6 (NASB))
We are moving into a new season in ministry here at One New
Man. Every time seasons change in
ministry the transitions cause an unsettling, by design, to the heart. Abba has always moved people geographically
to move them spiritually.
Look at Genesis 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD said to
Abram,
“Go
forth from your country,
And from your relatives
And from your father's
house,
To the land which I
will show you;
2 And I will make you a
great nation,
And I will bless you,
And make your name
great;
And so you shall be a
blessing;
3 And I will bless
those who bless you,
And the one who curses
you I will curse.
And in you all the
families of the earth will be blessed.”
(Genesis 12:1-3 (NASB))
I believe that the Lord keeps us moving because we cannot become
who we need to be, in Him, in old wineskins.
17 Neither is new wine
put in old wineskins; for if it is, the skins burst and are torn in pieces, and
the wine is spilled and the skins are ruined. But new wine is put into fresh
wineskins, and so both are preserved.(Matthew 9:17 (AMP))
You can’t go to where Abba is leading us if we
bring yesterday’s attitudes and perspectives. We need to become agents of healing and
blessing and we need to be willing to leave our patterns to do it.
When Yeshua sent out His talmidim, His disciples, after
empowering them with His authority, He sent them to do home meetings.
LOOK at Matthew 10:1-15:
1 Jesus summoned His
twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them
out, and to heal every kind of disease and every kind of sickness.
2 Now the names of the
twelve apostles are these: The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew
his brother; and James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; 3 Philip and
Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus,
and Thaddaeus; 4 Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, the one who betrayed
Him.
5 These twelve Jesus
sent out after instructing them: “Do not go in the way of the
Gentiles, and do not enter any city of the Samaritans; 6 but rather go to the
lost sheep of the house of Israel. 7 “And as
you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ 8 “Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse
the lepers, cast out demons. Freely you received, freely give. 9 “Do
not acquire gold, or silver, or copper for your money belts, 10 or a bag for your
journey, or even two coats, or sandals, or a staff; for the worker is worthy of
his support. 11 “And whatever city or village you
enter, inquire who is worthy in it, and stay at his house until you
leave that city. 12 “As you enter the house, give it your
greeting. 13 “If the house is worthy, give it your
blessing of peace. But if it is not worthy, take back your blessing of peace.
14 “Whoever does not receive you, nor heed
your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your
feet. 15 “Truly I say to you, it will be more
tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for
that city. (Matthew 10:1-15 (NASB))
Abraham was sent to establish a nation of blessing whose destiny
was to be agents of blessing, house to house, home to home. Part of the next move of Abba’s
Spirit is in our home glory invasions.
BUT, what we are believing for is not just home meetings but
through these intimate times that we would ascend to the mountain of the Lord,
or have an open heaven in our gatherings, where signs and wonders and miracles
occur. The key to that is heart
purification and clean hands.
Who may ascend into the
hill of the LORD?
And who may stand in
His holy place?
4 He who has clean
hands and a pure heart,
Who has not lifted up
his soul to falsehood
And has not sworn
deceitfully.
5 He shall receive a
blessing from the LORD
And righteousness from
the God of his salvation.
6 This is the
generation of those who seek Him,
Who seek Your face—even Jacob. Selah.
(Psalms 24:3-6 (NASB))
We lift up our souls to falsehood when we choose our personal
perspective over God’s perspective. This is what stands between us and His
blessing, His Presence. We see from our
partiality and need God’s love to be our guide instead.
9 For we know in part
and we prophesy in part; 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be
done away. 11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a
child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish
things. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know
in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. 13
But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is
love.
(1 Corinthians 13:9-13 (NASB))
Many of our perspectives are really part of our childhood. They are from our lack of God’s
love perspective and rooted in our preferences informed by falsehoods that we
have lifted our souls to. God is wanting
to shine His light into our darkness, our places of self protection and death
and bring His Love. We need His Love
perspective to be healed of that which taints our hearts and minds. This is how
we ascend the mountain of the Lord, come into His Presence.
Abba does this with revelation.
He sends His Word and heals our diseases.
20 He sent His word and
healed them,
And delivered them from
their destructions.
(Psalms 107:20 (NASB))
But it isn’t just scripture. It is perspective. His Word is only alive when we see it with
the eyes of our understanding in our spirits and souls. Paul prayed this destiny key: Ephesians
1:8-19
8 which He lavished on
us. In all wisdom and insight 9 He made known to us the mystery of His will,
according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him 10 with a view to an
administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up
of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In
Him 11 also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according
to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will, 12 to
the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ would be to the praise of
His glory. 13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the
gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed
in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is given as a pledge of our
inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's own possession, to the
praise of His glory.
15 For this reason I
too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which exists among you and
your love for all the saints, 16 do not cease giving thanks for you, while
making mention of you in my prayers; 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of
revelation in the knowledge of Him. 18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may
be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are
the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is
the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in
accordance with the working of the strength of His might Ephesians 1:8-19
(NASB))
You see if the eyes of our heart are NOT enlightened then His
Word of healing power is of no effect in us.
We need His Light to enlighten us.
Then we in turn can bring His Light to others. BUT we cannot bring light in an area that we
are in darkness in. In fact being in
darkness and acting as children of light is worse than just being in
darkness. This is what a religious
spirit is. It is a believer living in
unbelief and relying on their carnal imaginations to run their polluted
course. Instead of seeing through the
revelation of God’s love in the light, we see through
our own logic and half truths of the dark.
Listen to Paul: 2 Cor 10:3-7
3 For though we walk in
the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, 4 for the weapons of our
warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of
fortresses. 5 We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up
against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to
the obedience of Christ, 6 and we are ready to punish all disobedience,
whenever your obedience is complete.
7 You are looking at
things as they are outwardly. If anyone is confident in himself that he is
Christ's, let him consider this again within himself, that just as he is
Christ's, so also are we. (2 Corinthians 10:3-7 (NASB))
You see there is a kind of seeing that blinds us from seeing with
God’s eyes. It is a
condemning darkness. ˘?
Yeshua describes it this way:Mat 6:22-23
22 “The
lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body
will be full of light. 23 “But if your eye is bad, your whole
body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is
darkness, how great is that darkness!(Matthew 6:22-23 (NKJV))
Now we can grasp this statement is we realize that Yeshua is
speaking of the light of perspective.
You see,…. when we see through the light of our
own imaginations, lofty, lifted up speculations, falsehoods that our soul, our
mind, our will and our emotions now believe, we have entered in a darkness that
is so pervasive our whole body aligns with it.
Remember that the greater contains the lesser. That darkness swallows up all of the light in
us. We become what Yeshua called a
sepulcher.
27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful
outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. 28 “Even
so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of
hypocrisy and lawlessness. (Matthew 23:27-28 (NKJV))
You see religious spirits are rooted in the defilement that
partial knowledge or in the current vernacular, “jumping
to conclusions” causes. All the love we had disappears in the furnace
of offense that burns with a dark light, fueled by partial truths but no
love. Let’s
expand around Matthew 6:22-23 for a minute and then get the real picture.
Begin at 6:19:
19 “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.
22 “The lamp of the body is the eye. If
therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. 23 “But
if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the
light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
24 “No one can serve two masters; for
either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the
one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
(Matthew 6:19-24
(NKJV))
What is the treasure? It
is heaven’s love, His light seeing people as God’s
children NOT as enemies but as fellow brothers and sisters. Go to Matthew
5:43-45
43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You
shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 “But I say to you, love your enemies,
bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those
who spitefully use you and persecute you, 45 “that
you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil
and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. (Matthew 5:43-45
(NKJV))
We cannot love an enemy unless they no longer are one. Love changes how we see people and what they
do. The eye is the key. Ask Him to
change your perspective. Ask Him to enlighten
your eyes with His love. Then you will see others through God’s
eyes and NOT through the eyes of self protection, and partiality known as
Mammon.
If we are going to have revival , it will begin with
repentance. Repentance for
partiality. We cannot help but be
partial but we cannot accept it as real.
Our hearts will be pure as we allow His perspective, the truth to set us
free from the demonic perspective of offense and separation. Then we will
understand Yeshua’s words:
8Blessed are the pure in heart,For they shall see God. Matthew
5:8.
As we see from His perspective our hearts become pure and His
love is ours. Then we can step into our destiny as the next verse speaks:
9 Blessed are the peacemakers,
For they shall be called sons of God.(Matthew 5:9 (NKJV))
Shabbat Shalom, Let’s Pray
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