Apples and Trees part 4
I have to give my mom credit for this one. And isn't it funny the way the Spirit works? Something on my heart is on her heart too and it helps us both to understand what the Spirit is speaking. Ok. So we're talking about the apple not falling far from the tree. Talking about how we were made in God's image, and then on the cross CONFORMED to the image of His Son. About how important it is to know where we came from, so we can know where we're going. Well, in a sense I'm going to take it even a step further today. Look at Isaiah 40:28-29, "Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength." The Creator empowers His creation. And (here we go, Mom...), since I and my Father are one, it's not even really "Creator and creation." It's "Creator and creator." I don't know why we're still waiting for God to do something. Jesus did everything He needed to do on the cross and then He sat down at the right hand of the Father. We're always waiting for a move of God... when God already moved. What we really need is a revelation of Jesus. We need to know HOW God moved, and what it means that He HAS moved. And what it means is, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father" (John 14:12). It means that instead of expecting God to create something for us--He already did that when He created the heaven and the earth--we can now create things for ourselves! But here's the key--even as we exercise our dominion as kings and priests who rule and reign on this earth... you still have two choices. Choice number one is take what the world gives you and try to make the best of it. Choice number two is, as Jesus said, believe the Word of God and manifest the Kingdom. Because I'm NOT saying you can just willy nilly make anything happen. It doesn't matter how hard you "believe" (or, realistically, HOPE) that you're a millionaire. Check your bank account and you'll see what I mean. This creative power we possess is really a key that can unlock the Spiritual realm. When teaching His disciples to pray Jesus instructed them on the "natural" order of things. He said, "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven" (Matthew 6:10). In the book of Deuteronomy it is referred to as the days of heaven on earth. This Kingdom of God that is all around us--that is, in fact, WITHIN us--comes out, or manifests in our reality when we believe it. When we receive it and release it. So we can't create just any old thing. But we can create the true realm of the Kingdom. And that's better than any old thing anyway. Because that's righteousness, peace, and joy. True and lasting things that everybody needs. Apples and trees. Father and Son. Creator and... creator. Jesus is the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Which makes us kings and lords. Because... as He is, so are we in this world. The works He did... we are empowered to do. And greater works than those! But only if we stop trying to be someone we're not, and begin to let Him reveal to us (and in us, and through us, and as us) who we really are!