Saturday, September 6, 2008

Path Through Revelation Knowledge.

8:24 PM by Christi Bowman

John 8:32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

I read Andrew Shearman's G42 sermon months ago. I knew in my spirit that he was saying some big stuff. If he was speaking truth than I knew that I wanted to be part of that generation, but the language he used made me more than a little hesitant. He came to some pretty big conclusions, and if that generation language was going to be for me, then the truth of what he was saying needed to be revealed to me. It needed to be my own. I prayed about it, and like praying for a clearer picture of past abuse, it was forgotten about.

Watching people that have become very close to my heart come back week after week after week with unresolved pain has been part of this revelation process. I know He uses physical examples to reveal spiritual truths. God so clearly revealed Himself to me, and I knew the hope of their situations could all be changed too if He would just reveal Himself to them. I wondered why I was lucky and they were not. I bordered on Calvinism. It didn't make any sense to me. I prayed bold prayers with them and for them...calling down revelation and nothing happened. I got so frustrated I wrote the post "Is Salvation Mine to Give Away?".

Out of sheer frustration I wrote the sentence,

They don't know what I have found...and although it is mine, it is not mine to give away

and I heard God whisper..."at least not yet". I typed that out and decided I was bordering on heresy so I claimed that as well. A friend of mine read it and decided I needed to slow down and quit asking God questions for at least a week. I was very upset, and she gave me the best advice she could give. I hung up the phone and kept hearing "lay hold of God" (Matthew 21:21 MSG). I knew He was telling me NOT to slow down. I decided to fast from the computer, and quit seeking advice from people on Friday.

It started with Sept 4th's "My Utmost for His Highest". I read the whole chapter of John 17, and verse 11 (MSG) stayed with me.

...Holy Father, guard them as they pursue this life That you conferred as a gift through me,
So they can be one heart and mind
As we are one heart and mind.

I went on to read about His death, burial, and resurrection and came to John 20:21-23 (NIV)

Again Jesus said, "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you." 22And with that he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit. 23If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven."

Everything Jesus did...who He was...The way He was conceived...was a gift to us. It was God telling us in the physical who we are spiritually. It is all there for us as He holds His hand out to us.

John 16:33 In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."

He is giving us His life...Passing the torch so to speak. He is saying I showed you how to be who you were created to be all along...I came down and did it to show you how.

Isaiah 2:3
He'll show us the way he works
so we can live the way we're made.

"When we really do die to the satan perverted version of what God created us to be, when we are spirit conceived, we can become what He has always intended...His life IS our life. We CAN finally subdue and rule over the earth (Gen)...just like Jesus. He truly is the example of who we are to become to live abundantly. The Bible never glosses over His humanness, and that is to show us what WE are capable of. We can overcome and help others do the same by revealing His glory to them just like Jesus...in ways carnally unimaginable!!

"Lord, I believe...help my unbelief!!"

I will be posting Andrew Shearman's G42 sermon, in parts, over the course of this week.

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