This is very important, language of creative arts that is understood by all. Not all people understand religious language, and many have been “vaccinated” against religion since childhood, having an idea of the church as a sect, seeing priests commit sins. They are not ready to hear about God, because they are charged with anti-church stuff. But the language of creative arts is understood by all. You can hardly find a wild tribe person or a business man in the city who could not appreciate the beauty of the sunset or dawn, or the solemnity of high mountains. This is what it talks about saying: “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows His handiwork… there is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard” (Ps.19:1,3) That is, each man understands the language of creative arts. And one of the biggest problems today is that the church lost this language. When Luther excluded it out of the church life, though he was fighting Catholic extreme, but in this fight he also harmed the horse. You know, a horse is a very vulnerable animal – in a battle your enemy who wants to escape your spear would not spare your horse out of humane ideas. His goal is to survive, so as for me, I would strike the horse, first of all, to get rid of the horseman. I think this is what the warriors did, and in reality the battle fields were full of dead horses.
And I would compare horses with wonderful works of arts – when the was this fierce battle for the truth, these wonderful animals also died.
We had an amazing prayer night, where a word was released: I said, let us pray so that we can unfairly suffer. Because it is when you suffer unfairly, you’ve been offended unfairly, that you really manifest if you are a true Christian or not. When you experience and undeserved pain, this pain is soon replaced with an incredible sweetness out of a greater depth, because the Lord comforts those who are humble. And this wave of sweetness starts to rise and you begin to praise Christ for being unfairly offended, unfairly insulted. You start to thank the Lord for being able to taste of Him, at least a little. Instead of giving you a diamond, you’ve been hit with a dirty stone, and you pick up this stone, kiss this dirty stone and hide it at your heart. You say, I thank you Lord so much for giving me this dirty stone, because You were hit by these stones.
When we are unable to preach or even understand such gospel, we do not yet know Christ crucified. We do not understand the sweet things of the cross. We fight for justice, instead of carrying the foolishness of the cross of Christ.
I like people who change, and it’s impossible to work with those who’ve gotten stiff and proud.
Revelation.
“A cloud full of eyes was moving from one point to another. The eyes were watching over the earth. There was a lot of information in those eyes. Those who were connected with the cloud and the eyes understood the information. Partly this was of great help as it made it possible to prevent or correct many things. But there were many other things happening that were impossible to prevent – faults, destructions, which looked like judgments.”
A call sounds to get connected with the cloud full of eye. The eyes know everything. The understanding and knowledge are crucial today. You can prevent or correct things when you have understanding.
We must work with revelations. “Without a revelation from above the people throw off all restraint” (Prov.29:18). We work with revelations in our church, revelations keep the people in restraint. Often times the people have no unity because they don’t know how to work with revelations.
“Blessed are those who keep His revelations (testimonies), who seek Him with the whole heart!” (Ps.119:2) – One should know how to keep revelation. Learn to keep revelations! Those are blessed!..
“Remove from me reproach and contempt, for I have kept Your revelations”. (Ps.119:22) Revelations help to make breakthroughs from reproach and contempt. Revelation raises man’s authority, it lifts him up. When you keep revelation the Lord raises man up.
“I will speak of Your revelations (testimonies) also before kings, and will not be ashamed.”(Ps.119:46) One should speak of revelations and share them.
“Let those who fear You turn to me, those who know Your revelations.” (Ps.119:79) Revelations keep in unity. When revelation is not kept, dwelled on, clothed in – this causes division, the people throw off all restraint.
Revelations have time frame – long term and short term – we need to discern that, for that we need to study them.
There are those, which have come true and have not yet, those, which are in progress. There are personal revelation, which you don’t always share. If they are really serious one can share them with a leader or a spiritual person, who can give an interpretation or advice. There are general revelations – it’s good to share those.
There are revelations to the local church, to the brethren, which I normally share, to the Body of Christ, and those that speak to the world and events and foretell what will be.
There are revelations that reveal the picture of reality, that is, God reveals how it work – He shows how the Gates work, how all kinds of processes happen, even ecological shifts – even such revelations we have.
There are revelations that reveal God’s attitude to us, the way He sees things, whether He pities us or is displeased, or gives His favor and continues to bless.
There are strategic revelations telling us what to do. There are those that give warning or bring comfort. These are all revelations that God gives to his people, and we should understand them, because this is God speaking and we should understand this.
And one should zealously desire to obtain revelation, to have gifts, especially to prophesy. Sometimes pastor simply communicates his thought, and it causes yawning in the church, because this is boring to listen to his own thoughts. The human thing always goes in conflict with that of God, it helps not, it is fruitless, because man looks at things rationally, but you’ve got to look with the eyes of revelation.
One also needs to learn to receive revelation. What you hear – you believe and receive. You have to understand revelation and obtain interpretation, which is right. And then you get clothed in revelation so that in the season you move in the things that God speaks.
You also apply revelation, sometimes even apply martially, so as to attack the opposing forces.
And you also hold revelation, so that it should not be blown out. Light attitude to revelation hinders us.
The last thing I say – pay your debts, because life in debts is not life in blessing, it is life under curse. Pay your debts to God. You know what to do, each of us knows what you should do.
But what we owe to God, even in regard to your prayer, in regard to certain things that you know in your heart, that you need to be a prayerful person. You keep delaying fulfilling this, but then you get used to living with not a good conscience. And this is the most scary – not that you don’t have prayer, but when you are fine without it. You get used to live under the conviction of the Spirit, and thus begins spiritual distortion, when you agree with impure consciousness and live with it. This is the worst, this is what makes us cripples, it makes us spiritual invalids.
Sort this out, live under the Blood, live under the grace and solve this issue, do not delay it for tomorrow. This won’t spoil your life if you start praying.
And pay your debts – what humiliates you, what hinders our relation ship with each other, don’t be impure people. Pay your debts to your enemies especially; and our personal debt before God, yourself and people – in the divine consciousness. May the Lord bless us.