2022
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DISCUSS:
1. Are you trapped, or is it the fact that you are discerning your circumstances based on this earthly realm?
2. Has the born-again experience caused you to communicate with God on His level? (If so, it will be by the Spirit of God, and the Spirit is always willing.)
In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.
—John 14:2 NASB
DISCUSSION:
The Lord addressed this topic of feeling trapped in a store where you go in and can't find your way out. You came in a door, but the store didn't have any windows, and you feel stuck in there forever like you can’t get out. The Lord showed me the Earth is kind of like that in the physical realm. Before I was a Christian, it was hard not having the Spirit of God or the Word of God or revelation. It was hard, but it seems harder to me now that I'm a Christian. Now that my eyes are open, I see how this earth is rigged against you. The whole system is like a boat anchor, and it wants to slow you down.
Imagine being in a store and then never being able to find a door, suddenly, all the joy about shopping is gone because you're stuck. That's what happened when the Lord showed me this. The earth is like that. I thought it would get easier as a Christian, and in many ways, it's better and has its benefits. The only thing is that once you know something, you can never take it back, and you have to operate in that wisdom or knowledge, and if you don't, it's just going to be worse for you.
Imagine your eyes being open spiritually and knowing what's happening around you, yet you have to stay here and put up with the drama. Think about all the drama that goes on. We have to do something profitable instead of just wasting time. We need to get the revelation that the Apostle Paul was talking about being in Him because we live way below where we should be, and we’re limited because we're looking at this earth realm.
BE OF GOOD CHEER
Jesus said, “I've overcome the world. Be of good cheer.” He said, “You're going to have trouble in this world. “He didn't say He was going to take us out of it. He said that He had overcome the world” (John 16:33). Jesus is in Heaven now, and God is a spirit. Those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth (John 4:24). We're only stuck down here physically, but we're not stuck down here spiritually because we live forever. I've already met Jesus in person. He said, “I've never once limited you. There's nobody up here that's limiting you. No one doubts you. Every angel that's ever been sent to help you never thought they were going to fail. The Holy Spirit inside of you never once thought you would fail at anything that was written about you.”
It shocked me that my mindset had been formed by living down here and that I was stuck in a store without windows and doors when I was actually free inside. That's why the Apostle Paul could preach and write the letters he did. You would never know that what he wrote was from jail. He didn't write from his circumstance; He wrote from his revelation.
I saw the river of life. I saw what it says in Revelation 22. It talks about the river of life and how it flows continually out from the throne of God. I saw it go out of the city that's in the center and go out into paradise. I saw the water just running through there, and I thought that this water just kept going. I wondered where it went. The Lord said, “It goes off into the Earth realm and comes up through you, and through every believer, there are rivers of living water flowing through them. It’s from the throne. I couldn't see where it ended, but I got to go down to the river of life. Then I got to thinking, are we limited, or is it something that we just learn, because, with kids, you have to teach them to doubt. You have to teach them because they believe they can fly.