Saturday Service April 13, 2013
This morning before the healing rooms we had a time of prayer, and I am going to
relay what happened.
Psalm 36:9 (35:9 in the Douay Rheims Version)
"(9) They shall be inebriated with the plenty of thy house; and thou shalt make
them drink of the torrent of thy pleasure."
-Psalms 35:9 (DRB)
As I meditated on this this morning, the Holy Spirit said within me, "You are
thinking too much...you do too much thinking and not enough drinking."
He was talking about drinking of the spirit, getting loose in the spirit,
getting inebriated in the spirit.
You know water cleanses, but wine influences. We are under the influence of the
Holy Spirit.
You do too much thinking and not enough drinking.
And then the Lord showed up, and some of us were not standing any longer.
How many would like to experience more freedom in the Holy Spirit?
Just being relaxed and allowing Him to flow in and through us?
Often we take ourselves too seriously, and when we minister from the realm of
heaven to earth we are seeing results. People are getting healed, delivered and
saved. It is so awesome. It can be a real blast.
Psalm 77:3
"(3) I remembered God, and was troubled; I complained, and my spirit was
overwhelmed. Selah"
-Psalms 77:3 (NKJV)
I was reading this this week and the Holy Spirit just stopped me and said, "I
want you to look into this." He spoke inside, not audibly, and I started looking
into the original language and was blown away.
I remembered God
That is, I thought on God; I meditated on His character, government, and power;
And was troubled
The Septuagint renders this, "And I was delighted." This means filled with wonder
and delight, or entranced (the act or instance of entering into something).
My spirit was overwhelmed
Is an inflective verb and literally it means my spirit was overpowered in
itself.
This sounds like ecstatica or ecstasy of the spirit. It is the euphoric pleasure
in God.
Wycliffe's translation is the first translation into the English language:
"I was mindful of God, and I delighted, and I was exercised, and my spirit
failed."
Psalm 77:3 (Wycliffe 1388)
"I thought on God, and I was entranced. As I meditated, my spirit was in a state
of ecstasy." Psalm 77:3 (APT)
Glory to God
Meditate in Hebrew is hagah, which also means imagine. Our imagination is the
bridge between the spirit realm and the natural realm.
Colossians 3:1-3
"(1) If then you were raised with Christ, seek (keep on seeking) those things
which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. (2) Set
your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. (3) For you died, and
your life is hidden with Christ in God."
-Colossians 3:1-3 (NKJV)
Hidden is krupto meaning secret union of possession or participation with Christ
in God.
Isn't that awesome?
Set your mind phroneo;
To direct one' s mind to a thing, or to set the heart affection upon.
When we think about something long enough our heart affection, or the thoughts of
our heart-which is our imagination, connects us to what we are focused on.
As lovers of Christ we are to live in two realms simultaneously; the physical or
natural realm and the Spirit dimension.
Some of this might be new to you, but we have been created by God to walk in two
realms at the same time. Just like Jesus did. Jesus also operated in and out of
time. Faith transcends time.
Hebrews 11:1 says, "Now, faith is." Faith is now. Everything with God is
omnipresent. That means everything with God is right now. He's 4,000 years in
the past... as He is 4000 years in the future...as He is here right now. He sees
everything as if it is happening right now. With God, everything is right now. I
don't understand this in my head but I am understanding this in my heart.
On earth as it is in heaven comes through us.
"(9) In this manner, therefore, pray:(9) Our Father in heaven, (9) Hallowed be
Your name. (10) (10) Your kingdom come.(10) Your will be done(10) On earth as
it is in heaven."
-Matthew 6:9-10 (NKJV)
Our sanctified imagination plays a vital role and is misunderstood or unused in
the Western church.
God is infiltrating mysticism back into the body of Christ.
In the Orient, mysticism is a way of life. The churches in eastern lands accept
it as commonplace for the Saints to encounter heavenly messengers, or to be
caught up into the presence of God when they pray. My objective is to address an
attitude in the Western church that affects us more than we are willing to
acknowledge. We Westerners consider our pragmatism (which means a practical way
of thinking) as normal. We do not realize the extent it limits our acceptance
of god-ordained, biblically defined, mysticism.
From Standing in the Council of the Lord by Carlton Kenney
This book, the Bible, is supernatural. It speaks of supernatural events recorded
in the Bible for us, to show us what's available to us now, presently.
Jesus said that unless you are converted (reverse your present trend of
thought) and become as little children, you will by no means enter into the
kingdom of heaven (the Spirit dimension). (Matt 18:3)
Jesus is taking us on a journey to the place where we already are. Spiritual
growth is a providential journey of becoming what we already are.
We must be willing to hear something new that is compatible with the written
word of God, yet is beyond our present day understanding.
And everything we release in this house is according to the Word of God. Holy
Spirit is well able to revelate to us things we have never seen before. And when
we see that, we share it. We put ourselves at risk in sharing what the Lord is
revealing to us. One thing that He revealed to us is that we do too much
thinking and not enough drinking.
The joy of the Lord is our strength, and we minister from His presence. The
realm of His intoxicating love. And we release that. We're seeing God show up
and people being set free. Down at the mall, at the Church Without Walls, in the
healing rooms, in the sanctuary, at Kmart, at Moe's...
Luke 17:20/Luke 17:21
"(20) Now when He was asked by the Pharisees ( or the couldn't sees or wouldn't
sees) when the kingdom of God (the spirit dimension) would come, He answered
them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation (visible
limitation); (21) nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed,
the kingdom of God is within you.”
-Luke 17:20-21 (NKJV)
Ben Campbell Johnson's relational paraphrase says, "...you must understand this;
the spirit dimension is inside you".
When we bring the Word of God into the present tense instead of putting it into
the future-it is available to us now-the power of God is here!
If we read it this way, we are going to step into what He has right now.
John 14:1-3
"(1) Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.
(2) In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told
you. I go to prepare a place for you. (3) And if I go and prepare a place for
you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; (paralambano means receiving
something transmitted) that where I am, there you may be also."
-John 14:1-3 (NKJV)
"...that where I am, ye be..." (Wycliffe 1388). You are.
You are there where He is, right now, because we are entangled with Him.
Entanglement and quantum physics is about two electron particles that might be
100 million light years apart, yet when one of them moves the other one moves
simultaneously at the same time.
Once they've been together.
Revelation and science are converging. Quantum physics is shedding light on the
mysticism of the Bible. God is not threatened by science. Science is just
proving how God does things through how this universe is made. He is telling us
to come and find out what He has for us. Go ahead and create microscopes and all
this technology. He is not threatened by that. We are able to look into the
unseen realm of quantum physics and start seeing how the foundations of this
universe have been laid out. He wants us to know.
You are there where He is because we are entangled with Him.
John 14:20-21
"(20) At that day you will know (revelated to you) that I am in My Father, and
you in Me, and I in you. (21) He who has My commandments and keeps them (love
one another as I have loved you), it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me
will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”
-John 14:20-21 (NKJV)
It is through the ecstasy of love that Christ manifests Himself tangibly. It is
when we are drunk on His love that we will flow in His power!
Christianity is not as hard as we are making it to be. Just drink of His spirit
and enter in as little children. Dis' the head aspect of it (I have got to
understand before I can enter into this...no). Your head understanding will
block you from entering in. Faith is of the heart.
The Song of Solomon is a prophetic love song of the Beloved , Jesus Christ, and the
Shulamite (us, the bride). Right here the bride is singing to the daughters of
Jerusalem.
Song of Solomon 2:4
" (4) He (Christ) brought me to the banqueting house (the House of Wine and
intoxication), (4) And his banner over me was love."
-Song of Solomon 2:4 (NKJV)
And His banner over me-Love (was is not in the original).
His love conquered us to Himself.
This banner of Love marks us as to what dimension we belong to-which is heaven,
which is the abode of love. When we minister from the ecstasy of love we have
the resources of heaven at our disposal.
Today we ministered to a man in the healing rooms (he suffers from depression).
We had him take a cup and drank the wine of His spirit prophetically. Then we
laid hands on him and he started laughing, and it broke off of him. The
depression lifted off and the joy of the Lord came upon him as we drank from the
wine of heaven. He said, "You guys are strange, but I know it is right."
We are on track with the Holy Spirit. Because of our prayer time in the morning,
we were able to minister to him from the fullness of what we had received from
the Holy Spirit, and he received what he needed. To be set free, drink of His
spirit, and feel the joy of the Lord. It is wonderful to see people set free. He
came to heal the brokenhearted, to restore relationships, and set us free.
Friday we were at the mall and ministered to a man (Frankie) that we see each
time we go out there. He was in a car accident when he was 4 or 5 years old. He
is the one we talk about with the two new knuckles. We prayed for him and simply
said Lord, release the intoxication of Your love. The Holy Spirit fell, and
Frankie thought he was going to fall over. It was powerful.
This is what we are seeing no matter where we go. We release His love into the
atmosphere. It opens up people's heart to receive what He has for us.
This is one of my favorite scriptures. With this truth in our hearts we'll never
be the same. This is Jesus talking to us today-present tense.
John 14:12
"(12) “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do
he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My
Father. (13) And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father
may be glorified in the Son. (14) If you ask anything in My name, I will do
it."
-John 14:12-14 (NKJV)
This is really a great commissioning...a commissioning scripture and a
challenging one. Because I haven't walked on water yet.
He said greater works…
I have seen a dead man raised. We are going to see more. I am believing for
missing limbs, starting with two knuckles on Frankie's hand.
How many would like to experience the inebriation of His spirit? If you have
been dry or want to experience His fullness, come up.