Hi all,
I'm sharing about the relationship between heaven and earth that you may be encouraged.
I
love hearing the Father's perspective and the Lord's, because the
reality of renewing our minds is actually the process in which we start
to think like Him and living by His perspective on things. That means
when we learn of heaven's point of view we adjust our thinking
accordingly, so that when something catches us by surprise here on earth
we can call to remembrance once again, heaven's point of view.
The Holy Spirit is an eye witness
On
the day of Pentecost as recorded in Acts 2:25-32, Peter said King David
saw the resurrection of Jesus some 1000 years future: "...David said
about Him...seeing this before, spoke of the resurrection of Christ..."
and in 5:32: "...and we are witnesses of these things, so is the Holy Spirit..."
This
is how heaven operates - the Holy Spirit is the link between heaven and
earth and He knows what is happening in both realms. The way He showed
David the resurrection of Jesus 1000 years future is the same way He
shows you something about your future. He is an eyewitness both to
events here on earth, and to events in the heart of the Father even if
those events are 1000 years in the future!
Jesus said in John 16:13
of the Holy Spirit: "When He comes, the Holy Spirit of truth, He will
guide you into all truth for He won't speak of Himself, but only what He
hears. And He will show you things to come."
This
is why there are no prayers to the Holy Spirit in the New Testament
(and to do otherwise is unscriptural no matter what any preacher says or
writes, Jesus was very clear here) for He only repeats what He hears
from the Father and Son. As Jesus had said just before this statement
about the way the Holy Spirit functions: "I have many other things to
say to you, but you cannot grasp them now. However when He the Spirit of
truth comes He will guide you into all truth, for He doesn't speak of
His own, but only speaks what He hears..." The Father is the granter of
prayers, the Holy Spirit is just the Messenger between Him and us on
earth.
Any
experience anyone has on this earth, from being born of the Spirit to
seeing Jesus or even carried away 'in the Spirit' as the apostle John
described it in The Revelation 1:10 and 4:2, is via the Holy Spirit. He is the enabler by which all things in heaven are made known here on earth.
An
analogy would be what I've used many times before: A father is going to
wash a car, so he tells the son to wash it. The son uses water to wash
the car. The father planned it, the son did it, the water was the agent
used to actually do the cleaning. The Father planned it, the Son did it,
the Holy Spirit is the agent used to actually do the 'cleaning'. All
things here on earth that are of God, are done by the Holy Spirit, from
revelation that Jesus is the Christ, to the new birth, to communication
from earth to heaven and heaven to earth.
Knowing
what I said last week of Paul's statement that there is one family in
heaven and earth, we must therefore understand it is the Holy Spirit who
is in both places uniting this one family in two realms.
Furthermore, Paul elaborated on Jesus' statement of John 16:13
that the Holy Spirit only repeats what He hears in I Corinthians
2:9-16. As He expanded that teaching he starts by saying a person's
eyes, ears, and mind cannot discern or know what the Father has prepared
for us (they are foolishness to natural man). But the Spirit knows what
has been prepared because "He searches all things, yea, the deep things
of (Father) God." and "We have not received the spirit of the world,
but the Spirit of God, so that we might know all things He has provided
for us."
The
Holy Spirit is right now searching the Father God to know what He has
prepared for you - this moment, this hour, this day, this week, this
year, and beyond.
The
Holy Spirit is a true and faithful witness to the heart of the Father,
and of the Lord Jesus, the Head of the body. David in about 1000 BC saw
the resurrection of Jesus, and Peter stated the Holy Spirit was also a
witness 'of these things'. When you have a peace about a decision you
make that peace comes to your spirit because the Holy Spirit is bearing
witness that what you decided is in fact what the Father has provided
for you. This is why Jesus called Him the 'Spirit of Truth' in John 16:13. He won't lie about what He heard in heaven. He won't change anything about what He heard in heaven.
He
changes nothing from what He hears to what He then puts in your spirit -
peace, comfort, joy, excitement that your mind doesn't know why you
have, because He has searched the Father for His provision, found it,
and tells you by that peace that your decision is exactly what the
Father has prepared for you. Amazing grace!
Heaven's perspective on this
Barb
and I had been worshipping for about an hour and then she went off to
bed, but I lingered. Suddenly, Jesus was there in the living room and He
said "I want to teach you about prayer." During that teaching I learned
that most prayer actually begins in the heart of the Father God, who
wants to bring His will into people's lives. That should not be a
surprise for we've all prayed the 'Lord's Prayer', that His will be done
on earth as it is in heaven, but in this visitation I suddenly realized
He does so person by person bringing HIs kingdom into their hearts and
outward to their lives. Up to that moment I had thought of the Lord's
prayer as a sort of 'come and set up your kingdom all over the earth'
rather than 'come and set up your kingdom in my heart and then outward
into my life.'
I
saw the Father looking for someone to be sensitive to a desire He had
for His will in someone's life, but He needed legal access into that
person's life. An example would be of those of us who pray for a patient
in an ambulance as it drives past us lights and siren blaring. The
person they are transporting or on their way too get may not have anyone
who is praying for them, and our prayer is actually granting legal
access for the Father to enter earth and in particular their situation.
He is such a gentleman and free will being what it is, He may have been
shut out of that person's life for decades - until that moment when
because of His great love for that person, He ordered your steps to be
at that place at that time so that you could ask Him to become involved
in their life.
I've
had two times in two separate visitations where the Lord has said, "The
Father and I will not be blamed on that last day. For the day will
reveal we were fair and just in all things, and no one will place blame
at our feet on that day."
The
first time He said that was following this statement: "When a person
vows a vow to Me or the Father, we take it seriously for most of the
times those vows come from the heart, not just the emotion (flesh)." I
asked what He meant and He said, "There are many times a person will say
'I will go anywhere for you Lord. I will do anything you ask of me
Lord', and things like that. Heaven takes that seriously because it is
from their spirit, but then so often sin and distractions enter in and
they go off in another direction for their life."
"When
they vowed that vow, according to the Spirit of Truth, heaven made
preparation for their lives according to their vow. Then, when they go
in another direction and face hardship and sometimes great loss, even
over decades of going their own way, they sometimes blame me or the
Father for allowing those things to happen. But the Father and I will
not be blamed on that last day. For the day will reveal we were fair and
just in all things, and no one will place blame at our feet on that
day. They will see then if not first in this life, the errors of their
ways." Interestingly to me, Jesus expressed no condemnation for the
person with this statement, it was just fact, just that His grace is so
much bigger than our failures that He died for us anyway, and in the end
He wants the goodness of the Father to be revealed to all.
You
see, the Spirit of Truth as a witness works both ways - not only of
searching the Father for His provision and even showing us things
provided in our future, but also the other direction, according to
promises we make here and now, which causes heavenly preparation to be
made, the Spirit searching the depths of our heart and how we have
prepared for God in our lives.
The
good news is we cannot out maneuver, out guess, or surprise the Father.
He knew from before the foundation of the world all our broken
promises, all our detours from His will - yet He will be shown to have
been faithful to plan according to our spirit man's vows, and thus when
He reveals our error and sin, we will along with all mankind, fall on
our faces and give glory to the Father for His great grace and mercy for
we will all see He does all things well, and He will (finally) be shown
to all beings to be the Only Good and Just Father above all.
Continuing next week...until then, blessings,
John Fenn
www.cwowi.org and email me at cwowi@aol.com
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