I was touched by Christ’s words to his disciples. Today we are also disciples, and Christ also speaks to us.
“At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.”(John 14:20)
What kind of day is this? We all understand that this is, of course, when Christ is born or resurrected in our hearts, but I think that there is also a day ahead for each of us when we can truly know that we are in the Father.
I want to proclaim this day over us, so that we don’t think of it as in the past, but that it is as a day that is yet ahead of us. I want to bring to our attention that we need to know that Jesus is in the Father. Have you ever thought about this? What does it mean – Jesus in the Father? Think about it. Often we don’t think about what the Lord wants us to think about. How can it be that Jesus is in the Father now and always?
Jesus is in the Father, and we are in Jesus. Probably, there is no such form of unity in the Universe – for you to be one with what is inside you, and these two together are in the third One – in the Father! Jesus is in me, I am in Jesus, and together with Jesus we are in the Father! This is the highest form of unity that the Lord grants to the chosen children today.
“He who has My commandments and keeps them it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father.” Whoever loves Jesus will be loved by the Father. – Because we loved Jesus, the Father will love us! – And I will love him and manifest Myself to him!” Jesus, manifest Yourself to us and give us this love! And He manifests, we just don’t notice it or don’t appreciate it.
“Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him: “Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us and not to the world?” In other words, “that we are so lucky.” “Jesus answered and said to him: “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My Word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make our home with him.” Whoever loves Jesus will be loved by the Father. He repeats this thought a second time. And then the two of them – the Father and the Son – will come to us and make a home with us. That is, They will settle in our hearts and in our home! What a beauty! This is such a bliss to abide in this! Don’t slip into rituals or traditions, but be in real life, in the real, living nature of Christ. And even the discipline that we need to keep our “donkey” in obedience should not replace the living faith that should bloom in our hearts!
I want to share some revelations.
“I hear the sound of many trumpets that began to blow at the same time. The sound came from high in the heavens like thunder, causing some to fear and tremble. It seemed to wake up some people, and others covered their ears so as not to hear it. All this brought faults, refusal to understand or accept for some, but for others – clear understanding and a sign, and they rushed to where the sound emanated. It was the beginning of a new renewal, a new season and a connection with the sound of trumpets.”
I want to declare this revelation: many trumpets began to sound at the same time. Watch the trumpet, hear the different sounds of different trumpets. May the Lord open our ears so that we can hear what trumpet is sounding. If there are two, four, five trumpets – so that we can distinguish the sources and their message. Because they say that there is a beginning of a new renewal and the beginning of a new season and connection with the sound of trumpets. A prophetic release of the voice will happen for many of us. Start prophesying. Don’t be where you were, move to a new level. Lift your foot and make a new step by faith and connect with the sound of the trumpets in the prophetic flow. Many of you have matured, “swelled”, you understand the prophetic, and you just need to start moving and speaking. Go higher and you will see more. Take action!
Another revelation:
“The man of God submerged to the depths, diving even deeper than before, finding incredible precious things in the depths. Afterwards, he encouraged brothers and sisters to dive together so that they too could find incredible precious things. Brothers and sisters dived, but not all could get it, could only see it; some found it, but not as much precious things, and they asked the man of God to teach them how to find, get it, and dive correctly. When the brothers and sisters listened and were careful, doing exactly as the man of God showed, then they began to get precious things that would later be very useful in their lives.”
Yes, life with God is an adventure, it cannot be boring. If you are bored in faith, perhaps you have not yet embarked on the real path of faith, perhaps you have believed incorrectly. Life cannot be boring if you believe in the living God. It cannot be boring, because God is alive! Perhaps you had wrong examples? You don’t need to look at them, look at God – He will let you find Himself if you seek the Lord with all your heart, He promised that He would let you find Him. Seek Him! Sometimes even one sincere prayer is enough for your life to change.
I remember the testimony of one preacher, he is already in eternity, who said that when he was perishing in sins, he didn’t know how to pray, and he had one prayer that saved him, and in this prayer there was only one word – “Jesus! He shouted this Name with all his might, and nothing else. And this Name opened the heavens. The Lord came to Him and he became a man of God who brought revival wherever he went.
This is an amazing God! It’s an amazing life with the Lord! May the Lord open our eyes and ears, our hearts, so that we can stop, lift up our eyes to heaven and see how wonderful God is; then lower them under your feet and see how beautiful God is, then look around and see how beautiful God is; look inside yourself and see again how wonderful God is!
Brothers and sisters! Delight in the Lord! Get ready for the encounter! The Lord’s Supper is also an encounter; you receive the Blood and Flesh of the Lord. Do not allow yourself to dry out and become bored with Christ, while you are at His right hand. Jesus sits by the fire, speaks to His disciples, someone dozes with a smile – this is normal, but another one is bored, looking over his shoulder at the world and is jealous… But Christ remains the same – He is the Christ. Go to Him! Don’t stand aside, go to Him! He will by no means cast out anyone who comes to Him. What Christ can’t do is deceive. God never lies!
“Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus!” (Philippians 3:13-14).
Forgetting what is behind. O, how difficult it is! After all, what’s behind can also be good. But it can’t stop us. I know that many of you have received great grace in the church – you have received family, recognition, self-respect, fellowship. You got a lot. And that may keep you from following further on. Don’t stop! Move on! Forgetting what is behind, reaching forward. Forward! There, into the unknown! As we spoke – sweet springs of the unknown paths.
We need to hear three voices.
We need to come to our senses in order to see the light.
We talked about the prodigal son – that he came to his father, separated from his unclean memories, so that he could come to his senses, understand that the ring on his finger was legitimate, that the new clothes his father gave him were his, that his father’s servants respected him because he was the king’s heir. And then a week passes, another one, the son lies in the room, listens to music, goes out for breakfast, the father asks him: “How do you feel, son, what will you do? There is a lot to do in the palace, this is a kingdom.” And the son replies: “Yes, maybe I’ll do something, maybe I’ll meet friends, the inheritance is big, I don’t need to earn my bread!” What’s next? The son returns to the Father and simply lives his life, he follows the rules, but not more than that.
And here’s another picture. The son returns, a day passes, he comes to the Father and says: “Father, I have some thoughts, I want to expand our boundaries. I am the heir. I will go, we will take back the lands that belonged to our grandfather that were seized from us! I will return your kingdom, I will return the honor of our line, our coat of arms! I will go and bring back the glory that we have lost, I will return our banner! Father, please bless me!” The father replies: “Son, perhaps you haven’t fully recovered yet?” “No, father, don’t torment my heart! I ask for your blessing, I am going to conquer the kingdom!
A completely different story, brothers and sisters! What will you do with what you received? These are serious questions! The son has come to his senses! He has received his sight back! And we need to get back our sight! All of us! I don’t want to comfort you like babies that you are awesome and keep up the good work. I will “drag” both myself and you no matter what! Pray that this strength will not cease with me. We still have so many mountains to conquer, so many peaks! Lord, give us this strength!
But some hve already stopped. See – they heard this voice, but they were afraid or angry. Yes, it burns because it exposes, it shows your weakness. No one can compare with Him! Even Jesus gave all the glory to the Father. Jesus did it! He was the Knight! He never fell, He never left the Father, but He came into this world, and never forgot Whose Son He was. He brought glory to the Father, and He conquered the world for the Father. He died, He was killed, but He won. And He went on to fight in the underworlds of the earth, and there He won. And then He overcame us and is still overcoming us.
We, the servants of the Lord, must live these elevated goals in our lives. Don’t sink to earthly things, don’t stop.
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The first voice we must hear is the voice of God. The Lord created the ear to hear. It’s an interesting organ in the body. And there is a membrane there, and there is an inner ear. The first is the outer ear, no need to circumcise it, and there is a second and third ear, the deep one. And this third ear is meant in “let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches,” “to him who overcomes I will give of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it.” This new name is not the one your father and mother called you. Maybe you don’t even know it yourself. This new name is you. I believe this is a functional name when the Lord says your new name. You will read on the white stone – this is you. Can you imagine how He said to Peter: “You are Cephas!” – the Stone. The Lord speaks, He will speak to you a new name. Therefore, be the one who is written on the stone.
We also hear the voice of God through the voice of revelation. There are personal revelations when the Lord speaks directly to your heart, and also when He speaks through the Body of Christ, as now I shared a revelation, which the Lord gave to a person in our brethren who communicates, he is a servant of God, I thank him that he stands on watch every Sunday morning to receive revelation, he guards his gift, he stands guard at the source so that the gift continues to work. Because often we don’t stand guard over gifts, and the gift “stalls”, because we don’t love God and His people so much that this gift works, but those who are zealous about the gift, they don’t live for themselves, this is a high walk with Him.
There have been times in my life when the voice of the Lord came to me unexpectedly, and I had to work on being able to synchronize with it. Once I had a dream about how I could defeat the devil. I’ve seen this more than once. I believed that I could do this. I’m ordered, but he can’t win. I know that it is important for him that I leave prematurely, and he follows me, but he can’t make it. Isn’t this a victory? This is the grace of God!
But there was also a whole season in my life when prophets came and began to convince me of who I was. At first it was like a shock, some revealed secrets that only I knew, and again God’s love flooded everything, and again God spoke in a way that was higher than I thought about myself. I had my own projection table about myself, but the prophets and the voice of God – they convinced me that God thought differently about me. It is very important today to hear the voice of God – what He says, and not what you imagine.
When you love a person, you love him completely. And we need to learn to love like that. True love accepts all things. Stages pass – acceptance, conflict, and then comes respect, humility. The Lord loves us with perfect love from the very beginning. When He chose us, He made no mistake. He saw our future mistakes because all our days and words are written in His book. The true voice of God lifts man up and exalts him. I learned this with my own experience. And I testify to you that the Lord loves me more than I thought He loved me. How much I still don’t know. How much I put limit to it… It is so wonderful that the Lord’s love is immeasurable. “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.”
The second voice we need to hear is the voice of our neighbor who cries out for help. Oh, how we need to open the third ear to truly hear man! Not him asking for help, or what he is asking for – but to hear his spirit.
“And behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, saying, “Have mercy on us, O Lord, Son of David!” Then the multitude warned them that they should be quiet; but they cried out all the more, saying, “Have mercy on us, O Lord, Son of David!” So Jesus stood still and called them, and said, “What do you want Me to do for you?” They said to Him, “Lord, that our eyes may be opened.” So Jesus had compassion and touched their eyes. And immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed Him.” (Matthew 20:30-34)
You know, we also need to hear the voice of sinners crying from hell. This will help our evangelism. This is a very good topic. But we better not let those people cry from there. Hear the voice of the Spirit! Do not be afraid to lose something even if you sacrifice. I remember someone saying, “Don’t ever regret the good you have done.” If you have done some good to a man, even who betrayed you, never regret it, it will not go in vain. Seal it with a seal, then there will be a reward.
So, we need to open our ears so that we can hear the spirit of our neighbor, the voice of our neighbor who needs our help.
And the third voice that we need to hear is the voice of our innermost dream. We shoul never lose this voice. “A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths I have cried to You, O Lord!” How I love these words! “Lord, let Your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications!”
Brothers and sisters, if your dream has been asleep, awaken it, your most secret one! We can call it “happiness”, “love” – but there is something even deeper. This is what we are willing to pay the highest sacrifice for. If a person has nothing what he is ready to give his life for, he probably hasn’t yet met with himself, the real self and his true dream of the Spirit. Hear the voice of your spirit if your dream has fallen asleep – suppressed by everyday life, everyday worries. Are you saying this is because of the responsibility? – Not true. Things around you that don’t let you out cannot be your excuse. The dream wants freedom, it wants to live!
Try to believe God that you can be chosen and carry out His assignment! I tried to believe God that I could move to the ends of the earth. And so I went – to the south and north – usually I came there first to listen to the land, there were such moments, but more often it was such a dream that the Word of God could work in me also, that I could do what Apostles do.
Believe, quietly – believe. And not hypothetically, but for real. Now many brothers and sisters in different places are living their dreams, and it is so wonderful. What do you believe in? What promise keeps stirring you? What causes you to be crazy? What promise pulls you out of your environment? Is there such a thing? I want to awaken this third voice in our hearts, the voice of your highest dream, the voice of your own spirit, what you were made for, that spirit that wants to soar. If there is no dream, what’s the purpose?
Third ear. It must be circumcised with the circumcision of Christ in order to live for His glory. This foreskin is removed from the ear, which is called “myself,” and the ear begins to hear. Practically, it’s an ear plug. I pray today for an open ear. Paul also prayed for this – that the Lord would give the spirit of wisdom and revelation and open our ears and eyes so that we could understand, see and hear. Therefore, not everyone has an ear to hear. But the Scripture says: “He who has ear to hear, let him hear what the Lord says.”