Importance of Experiencing Kingdom Reality by Wade. Jn. 5:39, “You search the scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of me.” This clearly means that revelation is meant to take believers into an encounter with God. Revelation is never meant to increase head knowledge but to bring about an experience in Him! The renewing of our minds is not just to make us THINK differently; it is given so we will LIVE differently – in a new experience in the empowerment of Holy Spirit. What God reveals to us, we are responsible to put into action! Matt.13:19, “When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart.” Revelation of the kingdom is a living seed of another world carrying new possibilities. But when one does not understand it, the enemy has open access to that seed to snatch it away. To understand also means yielding to something before you can explain, define, or describe it. Heb.11:3, “By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.” We don’t have faith because we understand; we understand because we have faith. It is imperative to accept things without completely satisfying your intellect. Scriptural understanding first takes place in the spirit; as we obey Holy Spirit, our spirit communicates it to our minds so we can intellectually understand. Understanding is not required for obedience. Normal Christianity is to obey the revelation and prompting of Holy Spirit without totally understanding and usually unfolds in the experience. Revelation will take us only half way; experience leads us the rest of the way. If we don’t move into experience, revelation remains locked in our minds to the point where we believe that it’s active, even when it’s not. Hearing without doing locks us into a form of godliness without Holy Spirit’s power (2 Tim.3:5). Entire denominations exist that would fight to the death to defend divine healings, prophecy, deliverance – but they never see it happen! They agree with the concept, but make the excuse, saying, “If God wants me to have it; then He’ll give it to me.” They have a revelation, but can’t point to any proof of the validity of God’s power in their personal experience. Jn.3:13, “No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of man who is in heaven.” Strange verse, isn’t it? We tend to think of heaven as a place way out there someplace in space when in reality heaven co-exists with us! What is this verse saying? The Son of man who is in heaven – what about our lives here now? Doesn’t this mean that we, like Jesus, should live in a posture of dwelling in heavenly realms as ambassadors of another world, the land of faith, the realm of Holy Spirit called the kingdom of God? Revelation should change our hearts before we can ever explain what we’ve learned. Let’s consider divine healing for a moment. Christians are responsible for bringing divine healing to people, “proving the will of God,” (Rom. 12:1-2) bringing earthly reality in line with what is true in heaven. Healing is a part of normal Christianity; yet, think about how far the church has backslidden! When you put revelation into practice, you won’t get it 100% right – maybe not even 50%, but you will learn and grow in maturity in Christ. When you begin putting revelation into practice, you will soon have the attitude that what used to look impossible now looks possible, even logical, as your faith expands. Your revelation will bring you into an experience and empower you to do the works of the kingdom you have been called to do. Amen.
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 13:20:09 +0000
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