It is very important to know how to grow from level to level in the fellowship with the Holy Spirit. There is an old documented prayer that has been founded in the documents of the Early Church about the Holy Spirit. It is a prayer to call upon the Holy Spirit to help us.
When God called the people to worship, we notice that there are 3 different levels of worship recorded in this important chapter, Exodus 24: 1-2:
The people should not go up the mountain but remain at its foot.
Moses, Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel should go up the mountain but remain at a certain distance; they shall worship from afar.
Moses alone goes to the top of the mountain.
Moses explained all these arrangements to the people to prepare them to worship in accordance to these arrangements. The people responded by accepting and obeying the guidance of the Lord.
At this point, God’s triad plan of worship began to be implemented. It is full of great mysteries.
I believe that in these days there is a very crucial test that the Holy Spirit wants to do, so that he would sift his flock. Because the cross has actually started to disappear from the church of Christ and its work has diluted. That’s why Jesus allows the believers to go through a certain test, so that they start to experience one more time the work of the cross. If we don’t have fellowship in the suffering of Christ, we will be strangers from Jesus, the crucified one.
We often feel frustrated and in agony because we find ourselves being unable to live a victorious, steadfast life in Christ. Especially at times of difficulty and temptation. This fluctuation in our spiritual life causes agony and confusion at times. We often wonder how to live a life that testfies to the grace of the New Testament and that glorifies the name of Christ. Very often in our quiet time in the beginning of the day we receive a foretaste of this life. However when we face the challenges during the day we behave in ways contrary to what is within us.
If we deeply and seriously study and search the topic of the End Times in the Word of God, we will be surprised to come across things that we have not heard of before. Actually, only the surface of this topic has been touched, despite the many talks, comments and books that speak about the End Times. It must be understood then, that there would indeed be some sort of hindrance or masking of the real depth of this topic because it is one that digs deeply and ultimately into Kingdom matters, whether it be the Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of Darkness. It is, therefore, quite expected that the Enemy would do his best to mask the real revelatory matters related to the End Times. As a result, we are merely left with many songs and phrases like: “Maran Atha,” “O come, Lord Jesus,” “we love You Jesus and we are ready for Your Coming,” and that is all. Of course, this is important, but these are certainly not the real dynamics involved in this great topic that has an impact on all spiritual matters.
After the reformation movement, the western theology, tended to teach that everything is by faith. This is partially true because ‘faith’ according to the Bible doesn’t stop at just believing. This theology (after the spiritual darkness during the middle ages) shrunk and focused on logic and matters only understood by reasonand the mind. (Some catholic ideas were a reaction to thistheology).
We are used in our prayers to say ‘I believe you God’, ’Iaccept your promises and believe them’ ..etc.
However, faith is partly believing through our mind and partly receiving through the spirit. Galatians 5:5 ‘For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of the righteousness by faith’.
We live in an age where spiritual teaching and schools of thought have multiplied; each advocating its thoughts and ways trying to spread them and attract as many as they can to them. In addition to this, there are various translations and also old manuscripts and Church heritage are edited and reprinted. As a result, we have a platform of all kinds of teaching: genuine, mixed and false.
Only few have questioned whether the teaching they hear is from God or if people are speaking from themselves: ‘If anyone wants to do His will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or I am speaking from myself’ (John 7: 17). These people need someone to help them discern the genuine from the fake, the precious from the vile. Also, only few realise that they are wounded and sick with various spiritual ailments and that they need a physician to lead them in the path of true and complete healing.
They have the conviction that God is in control of everything happening in a life fully surrendered to Him. In His Sovereignty He allows what is benefitting and prevents what is hurting. Even enemy’s attacks are controlled by Him and used as a tool to reshape us. Because of this conviction and understanding, if a problem happens, they do not rush asking God to intervene and revert the attack OR rush and battle in Spirit, but patiently and wisely they explore the situation in such a manner:
To be really kingdom minded people we need to know God’s mind concerning the characters that are supposed to be in the life of a man or of a woman of God. Also we sometimes read or hear expressions like „man of God“, „man of faith, „man of covenant“ and we need to examine these terms and understand the mind of God on them according to the bible. Usually the basic term among these terms is the „man of God“.
The Lord has put in my heart two pictures that I was so preoccupied with and which caused a lot of pain and agony in my heart. The first picture of ministers of the Lord: the Lord gives them His impressions, which can all be summed up in one word that Jesus repeated: „follow me“. And in many stories of the New Testament we hear Jesus repeating these words, whether to His disciples or to many of the people whom He healed or worked miracles and he always said these words: "follow me“.
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