How does one know the mind of a
personality/person without accessing his mind? If we can’t access the mind of
God we can’t know His thoughts so how can we know what He is doing? Meanwhile,
it is His desire that we know so that we prepare our hearts and be rightly positioned
to tap into this new thing that is beginning to break forth. It would be sad if
God lays out a table for all His children and one misses out. Interestingly,
one may miss out whilst they are busy pursuing good and/or seemingly godly activities
which lead them away from God because God already moved away from that activity
and you were unable to perceive that He already moved from it. It is sad for a
believer to miss the working of God. It is for this same reason that a certain
group of people still have a problem with accepting Jesus Christ as the Messiah
even today. They knew about Him but didn’t perceive that He had arrived because
they were ignorant of His mode of entrance to earth. God is amazed when we remain
deaf or blind to His workings and methods because He already provided all we
need to access any information we need, in the person of the Holy Spirit.
Isaiah 43: 19 “For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun!
Do you not see it?
I believe very much that God has
actually begun this new thing in every area of our lives. A wave of revival has
started already, can you tell? Have you noticed that God is, in a manner of
speaking, making pathways through the wilderness like never before? He is not
just doing them but doing them suddenly. God is giving miracles without signs.
In very contrary circumstances, He does what one least expects. If you can’t tell
that God is moving, then you may either be wrongly positioned or looking out
for the wrong things. Please don’t look out for signs, just trust because He
seems to be working suddenly and without signs like He did when suddenly the
price of food dropped in Samaria. It is not too late to get properly
positioned; the alternative is a major loss.
2 Kings 7: 17b – 19 “So everything happened exactly as the man of God
had predicted when the king came to his house. The man of God had said to the king
‘by this time tomorrow in the markets of Samaria, six quarts of choice flour
will cost one piece of silver, and twelve quarts of barley grain will cost one
piece of silver. The King’s officer had replied, ‘that couldn’t happen even if the
Lord opened the windows of heaven’ and the man of God had said, ‘you will see
it happen with your own eyes, but you won’t be able to eat any of it.’ And so
it was, for the people trampled him to death.”
The king’s officer was cynical because
there was no indication of what the man of God had said. Their circumstance had
remained the same for so long that it looked impossible and who changes an
economy so suddenly anyway? He just did not realize that God who does as He
pleases, makes all things beautiful in His own time and does not need the
entire world working with Him to accomplish His purpose nor does He need anyone’s
permission to change whatever He desires to change. From scriptures, we find
that He needs just one ‘man to stand in the gap and make the hedge.’ It is time
to learn to believe the word of God again even when we see nothing. The bible says
without faith it is impossible to please God. We need to trust Him to please
Him and our God is searching for God pleasers that He may perfect and use them.
He wants to reveal His glory in and through such persons. If Noah had not
trusted enough to build an ark, He would have perished in the water though that
was not God’s will for him. God isn’t going to build the ark; you have to believe
Him enough to build it so that you can ultimately see the fulfilment of His
word.
John 11: 40 “Jesus responded, didn’t I tell you that you would see God’s
glory if you believe?”
2 Chronicles 18: 9 “The eyes of the Lord search the whole earth in
order to strengthen those who hearts are fully committed to Him.”
I heard Bishop TD Jakes say and I
believe that “God chooses people according to their hearts.” God searches for
hearts that yearn for Him all the time. Such hearts are definitely kept informed
of God’s doings on earth. God loves to let His friends into His secrets; people
whose hearts desire to please Him. Unfortunately, many such persons will be
ordinary people without spiritual offices but who know and love God passionately
and as a result, are yielded to Him. Just knowledge of God is not enough, one
needs to know Him. A heart yielded to God cannot help but see the way God sees
and will as a result, love the way He does. If you love Him, you must be
spending time in His presence as well as allowing yourself to be led by His Spirit.
To be led by His Spirit is to simply yield to leadership of the Holy Spirit. It
is to trust and obey the Spirit who is His Word.
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