Manifesting Your Destiny, Eternal Weight of Glory - David Mitts

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, (2Co 4:16-17)

We live lives with an eternal weight of glory which exceeds our struggles.  Though we are set in a temporal context with its attendant issues, there is within each of us and collectively together a destiny which can thrill our hearts if we can but grasp it.  This destiny is reflected in this world but is NOT of this world!!

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This is so important to grasp.  We are living lives for eternal crowns, not temporal trinkets that are mere physical ornaments dressing up dead bones.  It isn’t for external approval that we live for but for His Glory.  Yeshua spoke about this in Matthew 23:26-29

Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also. "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. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, (Mat 23:26-29).

It isn’t the outer success that man approves of that really matters.  What matters is what is enduring and eternal, what is happening on the inside, in that part of us that is the Glory of God.  

That Glory is the seed, that is incorruptible and yet refined by the trials of life.  You see God has seed, potent and full of identity and destiny.  That seed is deposited in the womb of our lives by His Holy Spirit, as His Word, His Torah, alive and making alive unto eternity.  That seed then has a glory.  That glory is the weight from eternity in the seed.

You can buy different seeds.  you can buy common seed, organic seed and something called heirloom seed. The DEFINITION:

“Heirloom seeds produce vegetable varieties that have been around for 50 years or more. These are the vegetables your grandmother grew. These are the vegetables that were around before the food pyramid, before the Department of Agriculture, before the huge agribusiness's that create most of the "food" on store shelves today.”

The seeds may all look similar but there is an entirely different plant depending on the seed and its potency and power.

God’s living Torah, His “heirloom” seed, the one that produces His children, His heirs is producing a fruit, His children that are living on the inside with destiny.  This destiny contains eternal glory.

Glory is also another word for value.  We weigh things on scales that evaluate glory based on measurements that compare and contrast with a standard.  We used to have a country that was based on the gold standard.  That meant that every dollar produced was an instrument of commerce that was backed by a measurable quantity of gold that was stored in a treasury.  Gold is actual wealth.  It contains unique properties of scarcity and tangible value.  Land is actual wealth.  That’s why God made a Land based covenant with Abraham for Israel.  It is tangible and has properties of provision, being fertile, and identity as a home.  A land deed is like a dollar used to be.

Today that “glory” of currency has been unlinked from the gold standard to man’s speculative value.  We have currency markets that determine the value of currencies based on pure speculation. This means man’s opinion has been elevated above God’s standard of gold which He connected with value by calling it “tov” or good.

The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there. (Gen 2:11-12).

This should makes us pause in our understanding of what God values.  He is NOT anti-Gold.  He is against mammon.

Man, relying on speculation has undermined the age that we live in and is actually anti-God or anti-Christ.  In the last book of the Gospel, called the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which could be called the 5th Gospel, the Anti-Christ is personified:

He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. (Rev 13:16-17)

Many have been expecting a physical “mark” and so have been a little paranoid about chips, gps, passports etc.  Another perspective is that the right hand is the biblical symbol of power and authority and the forehead is where the face or image of the seed is seen. Look at Deut 6:4-9

"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. "And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. (Deu 6:4-9)

The seed of God’s living Torah, His seed is expressed in covenant through the hands, the symbol of our power and talents and gifts expressed, through our foreheads, the place of His countenance in our lives, and on our homes and gates, the consecrated Land that He gives to us to be stewards over.  All of these are elements of true wealth, the wealth that comes from God giving the us the power to get wealth in order to establish His covenant. Deut 8:18.

This is expression of His eternal Glory in our lives.

As an aside the speculation of man and his anti-God, anti-Christ value system will also be attacking our tangible property wealth and convince us that their is no value in land ownership.  This is really what is underlying the banking scandal.  The banks crashed because of what?  They made loans based on speculation.  They used to make loans based on wealth, a mans word and God given talents, character.   They ditched that and used speculation.  This is a devilish wisdom source that seeks to make everyone renters subject to the authority of the man’s speculative value system.  Can you see the link??

This is also occurring in the attitude towards Israel and their covenant Land of Promise.  Speculation, man’s “demonic” wisdom as embodied in the man centered institutions of power and identity, the UN and assorted coalition entities that rely on military power and other man centered “glories” are sitting in counsel deciding the fate of Israel and the miracle of Her return as proclaimed in the Scriptures.  

Speculation is nothing more than glory or value being derived by man’s opinions and NOT by God’s standards.  Ultimately it is about devaluing ALL that God’s Torah has breathed into existing as Or, Light, which is His created order and substituting death-ladened perversions of marriage, sexuality, parenting, etc.

God proclaimed this as a shaking, in Hebrews 12:26-29

whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, "YET ONCE MORE I SHAKE NOT ONLY THE EARTH, BUT ALSO HEAVEN." Now this, "YET ONCE MORE," indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire. (Heb 12:26-29)

We are living for that unshakable kingdom which is working inside of us, to produce the vision of God in the seed that is in us.  So, we have to remember that our afflictions are NOT a problem but a refinement or a proving, a testing which produces in us an eternal weight of glory.

Lisa and I were watching a movie about violins.  There is a man named Stradivarius who made the most amazing violins, in the early 1700’s.  He developed a method for treating the wood that has not been improved upon to this day.  His classic violins sell for millions of dollars.  Why?  Because the gift of God that was in Him produced something of wealth that the world has never duplicated. That is the glory of god, His seed in Stradivarius. The irony is that the super rich have made these violins super costly, because of speculation.  The violins are rare and exceptional, but man always tries to make the fruit his own without learning how to go to the root, the inner glory.

You have the same thing, a seed with an eternal weight of Glory.  It is priceless beyond compare.  It is the pearl of great price.

"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it. (Mat 13:45-46)

The pearl is the seed of your unique destiny.  The Kingdom of heaven scriptures are mostly about the inner qualities that are in a person who has that seed in their hearts.  Yeshua is telling us that being sold out yo a destiny-seed and selling all, that is of the old man to pursue it is a quality of the Kingdom.   Remember all of His listeners knew about leaving Egypt and that was of Egyptian life and pursuing a destiny!  Let’s back yup a few verses here in Matthew and we can see it.  Beginning in verses, Mathew 13:37-43

He answered and said to them: "He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one. The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels. Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age. The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear! (Mat 13:37-43)

You have a destiny!  There is seed planted in your heart.  It will bear incorruptible glory!!  This is glory which carries the weight of eternity!

The Lord is speaking of a separation of harvests from different seeds.  The seeds of the world, the outer glory are the fares and are gathered to their destiny.  The seeds of The Lord, incorruptible are shining like the sun, in the Kingdom!

Look at one final Scripture to build your faith for the time you live in and what this ministry is in your lives:

Malachi 4:1-6 (NKJV)

MALACHI 4

 The Great Day of God

[4:1] “For behold, the day is coming, 

Burning like an oven,

And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble.

And the day which is coming shall burn them up,”

Says the LORD of hosts,

“That will leave them neither root nor branch.

[2] But to you who fear My name

The Sun of Righteousness shall arise

With healing in His wings;

And you shall go out

And grow fat like stall-fed calves.

[3] You shall trample the wicked,

For they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet

On the day that I do this,”

Says the LORD of hosts.

[4] “Remember the Law of Moses, My servant,

Which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel,

With the statutes and judgments.

[5] Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet

Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.

[6] And he will turn

The hearts of the fathers to the children,

And the hearts of the children to their fathers,

Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”

We see again the division between those whose seed is death and it's glory.  They are burned like stubble , both root and branch.  This means that the seed itself is destroyed.

The righteous seed arise with the sun of righteousness, shining in their glory and destiny!

Moses is the seed, the Torah.  Elijah is the Spirit of prophecy and prophetic awareness.

Restoration of honor and relationship is the fruit!  T his is what Destiny House is all about.  We are Destiny House and we are building Destiny House.

This destiny is being refined in our lives through trials.  Many may evaluate you by external standards. But God evaluates you with eternal values, His plans and purposes for you.  The plans are glory producers,  They are value enrichment.

Training the Heart- It’s all about the Glory - David Mitts

So then, does He who provides you with the Spirit and works miracles among you, do it by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith? (Galatians 3:5)

We are living in the day of miracles!  We however need to learn how to train our heart to experience the miracles.  The above verse teaches us that miracles occur by the “hearing of faith”.  How does our faith hear?

Well we quote back, So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

(Romans 10:17)

The question becomes, how do we hear the Word of Christ or the Word of Messiah?  You see we have made assumptions when we read or hear the Scriptures.  What we rarely do is test our assumptions.

Charles shared last week about the desert of testing.  In the desert, the Lord gets our attention to humble us and teach us how to hear His voice:

"All the commandments that I am commanding you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to give to your forefathers. "You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. "He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD. (Deuteronomy 8:1-3)

The Lord will do whatever is necessary to bring about humility and repentance, so we may fulfill our destiny, walking into our inheritance.  In the dessert, He taught Israel through hunger and through heavenly provision in the form of manna to develop an intimacy with His Spirit.  Hunger tunes our spiritual senses to the flavor of provision.  Fasting is about, at least in part an increase of our sensitivity to God and His Presence or Glory.

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

(Matthew 5:6)

What are we filled with when we thirst and hunger after righteousness?  With Him who is our righteousness.

But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, (1 Corinthians 1:30)

So the hunger and thirst is ALL about Him and His Glory!  Now why is this important?  BECAUSE WITHOUT HIS GLORY, HIS MANIFEST PRESENCE, we will have a form of godliness without the power!  This is the seduction of religion in the last days!

But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. (2 Timothy 3:1-5)

We need the reality of His Glory for our faith to be effective.  In order for our “faith” to be effective, we need Him in our faith!  Faith comes by hearing but hearing comes through Him!  This is why Yeshua emphasized that hearing determines everything.  Hearing, sh’ma is everything!  We need to know when He is in the camp, listen and act!

Turn with me to Mark 4:14:

"The sower sows the word. "These are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown; and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them. "In a similar way these are the ones on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy; and they have no firm root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they fall away. "And others are the ones on whom seed was sown among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word, but the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. "And those are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold." And He was saying to them, "A lamp is not brought to be put under a basket, is it, or under a bed? Is it not brought to be put on the lampstand? "For nothing is hidden, except to be revealed; nor has anything been secret, but that it would come to light. "If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear." And He was saying to them, "Take care what you listen to. By your standard of measure it will be measured to you; and more will be given you besides. (Mark 4:14-24)

This is a teaching on relationship, on hearing.  Our hearts need to know His voice by His Presence.  He takes into dessert places in our lives, so we will be hungry and thirsty for His Presence.  We, like Israel are addicted to garlic and leeks.  Our appetite is adjusted to the flavors of the world.  We crave what we have been eating.  Our addictions come from our experiences.  God is bringing us to a place of new hunger and new thirst!  For Him!  He is the true food and the true drink that we need, but as long as we are eating the junk food of the world we will live in the junk food results!  Religion without power.  We need to fast and pray for His taste to become our desire!

God has already built hunger into our being.  There is nothing wring with hunger or thirst or any desire He created us with.  The problem is when we try to fulfill our desire with tastes from this world.  When we draw neat to Him, then His Glory fills our being and we taste of His goodness.  In this place, we come into oneness with Him and His Glory is manifested.

Yeshua was always meeting the desires of people.  He never rebuked their desires.  In fact, He eagerly meet their desires, whether it was food for 5000, healing for the untouchables, or resurrection for Lazarus.  The key was the Glory.  So, His final prayer was for us to receive His Glory!  Look at John 17:22

"The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. "Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. (John 17:22-24)

The glory Yeshua is speaking of is His Presence.  He is calling us to receive His Presence, but we only will if we are hungry and thirsty for Him to make our faith real.  Then we will see miracles in our lives.  It isn’t by just knowing the Scriptures that apply but by receiving Him, His Glory into our lives and in that place of unity, oneness with Him, miracles will occur as we speak them forth!

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