Dear Sisters and Brothers,
Yes, another week of The Holy Spirit having us focus on “the violent take it by force.” Let’s restate our reference verse from Matthew 11:12.
Matthew 11:12
And from the days of John the Baptist until now The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
The Lord woke me up at about 4:15AM Sunday morning. Whenever God wants to impart something to me and have my undivided attention, He wakes me up between 4 and 4:30AM. It’s always in this range of time. I remember awaking, and He said, “get up.” I’ve learned that means He has something to say, and I get on my knees with my Bible and a notepad beside the bed. I then begin to pray in the Spirit, and He begins to speak to me. I write down what He is imparting.
This morning was a continuation of Matthew 11:12. The Lord gave me several verses, then expounded on them.
Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to Me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
This is a verse which we have spoken to a lot. Proverbs 2:6 tells us, “the Lord giveth wisdom: out of His mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.” We read The Word to get knowledge and understanding. From diligently seeking Him, The Word, God rewards us with wisdom (Hebrews 11:6). God has made it clear that if we don’t invest time in His Word receiving knowledge and understanding and diligently seek after Him for wisdom, we, as Believers, will be destroyed just like the natural man. When we should be living at God’s best, instead, we’ll be living at man’s best. We already know there is no comparison to God’s best and man’s best. Man’s best comes with a lot of baggage. God’s best comes with love, joy, and peace. God said to me, “many, many Believers are destroyed like the natural.”
Ecclesiastes 10:5-7
5 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:
6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.
7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
The Lord said “the evil” in verse 5, above, is Believers with wrong thinking, wrong speaking, and one who is fast to weary and quit. The Holy Spirit said Believers, who are the rightful rulers of this earth, the princes, are thinking, speaking, and acting like servants and those full of folly. Believers are walking beside the kingly horses as servants while satan and his people are riding the horses and ruling the world. This is “folly set in great dignity, while the rich, God’s children, sit in low places being told what to do by satan, his system, and his people.” We, as Believers, are to take our rightful place, our heritage, our inheritance, and rule from The Kingdom of God in this earth.
Habakuk 2:2-3
2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
The Lord said to me, “My people are the laziest when it comes to writing things down to meditate, to decree, to speak into existence. He said the secular world does this exponentially better than My own children.” I could tell from how He spoke it this really bothers Him. He said, “if only they would obey Me in this, this would dramatically change their daily lives.” God gives every single one of us dreams, visions, and The Word which we are to capture by writing it down, meditating and studying it as God reveals even more. We than decree it and patiently wait with full assurance and expectation the vision, the dream, The revealed Word in our life will come to pass. It may be one day or it may be ten years, but IT will come to pass provided we don’t quit on it.
II Corinthians 4:18
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
The Lord said to me, “don’t allow things which you see with your natural eyes to control you. The dreams, visions, and The Word revealed come up in your heart and are the things which cannot be seen, that are first Spiritual. satan will try to divert you, to distract you, to discourage you, and to disqualify you from what I have put in your heart. This is why it is vitally important to write it down and meditate on it often until it becomes as real Spiritually as if it were already physically manifested. Then it can physically manifest. My Word, My Truth is eternal and always supercedes the natural, the temporal.”
II Corinthians 4:1
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
Simply put, The Lord said, “don’t quit!” He referred me to Numbers 23:19.
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: hath He said, and shall He not do it? or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good?
The Lord said to me, “if I’ve given you the dream, the vision, The Word, then I will watch over it to see it come to pass if you obey Me, write it down, meditate on it, decree it in faith, and then be patient and give Me thanksgiving and praise. I don’t lie, I don’t exaggerate, I don’t just get by. I am The God of all things good and perfect. I am The God of the impossible. And it is My heart’s desire to give it to you!”
Galatians 6:7-9
7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
In Genesis 1, God gave Adam and Eve three things: The Blessing, dominion and authority, and the seed (Genesis 1:28-29). Even after Adam and Eve fell, God, in Genesis 8:22 made sure The Spiritual Law of the Seed remained intact in the earth. This is how we, as Believers, operate abundantly, outside the earth-curse system of satan. We must sow seed to obtain a harvest. It is Spiritual Law. But be careful of the seed you sow, for you will definitely reap a harvest. Sowing to the flesh is ignoring God’s established principles. You can’t run, and you can’t escape it. You don’t give to God that which is His, you are sowing to the flesh, and you will reap corruption. “Life everlasting” in verse 8 doesn’t mean, “eternal life.” A Believer already has eternal life. It means you reap all of the blessings of salvation: deliverance, protection, healing, and prosperity. And if you sow to The Lord, as He has commanded, then don’t quit believing for your harvest. No matter how long it takes. It will manifest. Stay in praise and thanksgiving to Him that watches over His Word to see it come to pass. Nothing is more important to God than His Word (Psalm 138:2).
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Faith is the funnel through which God can transport the supernatural into our physical lives. Hebrews 11:1 tells us, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for….” “Hope” in the Biblical definition is “certainty, surety, or a guarantee.” God is guaranteeing it. The visions, the dreams, The Word that God gives to us is “the substance” of things for which we are certain. When is “now?” Now, right this moment! So, by starting the verse with “now,” God is telling us that faith, our servant, is always working to produce the things hoped for by us. We are to let The Word do the work once we’ve decreed it in faith. Remember in II Corinthians 4:18, we are not to allow the things we can see with our natural eyes divert us from the dreams, the vision, The Word God has put in our heart. We are to meditate that which God has put in our hearts until it becomes Spiritual Truth to us. We know that we know that we know.
And what is the result of us being violent and taking The Kingdom of Heaven by force? What is the result of us spending time in God’s Word to receive a vision, dream, or a Word from God that we write down, meditate, and decree? What is the result of not allowing satan to distract or discourage us, no matter how long it takes? What is the result of sowing continually into The Kingdom of God according to God’s Word, His protocol, His commandment? What is the result of staying in praise and thanksgiving to God for the finished work He will do in our lives, the lives of our family, our business, our job, our ministry, our marriage, with our children or grandchildren? There are hundreds of verses that tell us what happens when a righteous man or woman does these things. Here are four well-known ones I use often.
Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Psalm 115:14
The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
III John 2
Beloved, I wish [My will] above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
What beautiful and grand promises of Truth we have from our loving and doting Father. He is looking for those Believers that will step out in faith and believe His Word, no matter what our natural eyes or ears tell us. Me, I want EVERYTHING God has for me – IN THIS EARTH.
The Word works when we work The Word!
Blessings,
Larry