Compelled By Reality

Living Now is to our Advantage!

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The generation we are living in right now is more important and more significant than we know. Many have said that it would be so much better if we could have lived in the time when Jesus was on the earth; oh to be a disciple and to walk in his footsteps and see the miracles He did and to get to talk to Him face to face. And while those things seem desirable, Jesus disagrees.

“Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you.” John 16:7

It is “TO YOUR ADVANTAGE”, to my advantage, to our advantage that He no longer be here on the earth with us. How is this possible? Wouldn’t be so much easier to witness to people about the man who is fully God and fully man, who’s name is Jesus of Nazareth if He was here on the earth and we could introduce Him? Wouldn’t it be so much easier for people to believe that He was God if people could see Him?

Those questions immediately came to mind when I read that. Sometimes I read something in the Bible and in my own mind cannot wrap my mind around that this could be truth. So I start questioning it and looking over it like the “Word of God” is on trial and I am the judge, judging whether something is valid in “today’s culture.” Then the word of God starts to look into my heart and starts to tear down those wrong ideas or those mindsets that this world has built into the frame of my thinking.

It would NOT be easier to witness, nor for people to believe if God’s own people who He performed miracles after miracles for recorded all throughout the Old Testament didn’t recognize Him as God. How can we expect others to respond differently?

But here is where I am unsettled, dissatisfied, motivated.
If it is to my advantage and to the advantage of Christians everywhere that Jesus be taken away so that we could have the Holy Spirit and be walking in the gifts and power of the Holy Spirit, then I believe most believers including myself are operating at about 1% in the fullness of the Holy Spirit. There are some who are walking in levels at a little more or a little less, but very few who have tapped into the fullness of the Spirit in the past 100 years. People like John G. Lake, Smith Wigglesworth, Reinhard Bonke and few others are ones we’ve seen operating at a greater percentage of fullness that I think of when Jesus said “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also, and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.” John 14:12.

In verse 12 of John 16, right after He said it is to our advantage that He goes, He goes on to say this “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.” His disciples who have walked with Him, who know Him intimately, who were doing signs and wonders in His name, could not bear the things that Jesus would say to them? That blows my mind. But even more than that… once we have God’s Spirit inside of us “13 when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. 14 He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you.”

We must walk in the Spirit
If we are to operate at more than a 1% level of fullness in the Spirit, we must start walking in the spirit more. The spirit of this age has dulled our senses, even Christians and we are more interested in what’s on tv or what the latest thing is, then we are of what the Holy Spirit has to say to us from the throneroom of heaven. I believe we are not operating in fullness because we aren’t daily cultivating ourselves to be listening to the Spirit. The Holy Spirit wants to declare to us what Jesus is saying to us now.

The only we that can happen and we can begin to go from 1% to 2% to 5% to 50% and more is if we day after day turn off everything and turn on our ears to hear through His word and through prayer. More and more time must be given to this, day in and day out and it must result in the full destruction of everything thats on the inside that hinders us from God. Thats what I’m contending for.