Poetic-Verses
LIVING BEFORE YOU GET THERE
JOY SUN
DEDICATION
"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now know I in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." (1 Corinthians 13:12).
"And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because He maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God." (Romans 8:27).
You can edit the whole future. What is the essence of revelation? To pre-know or foreknow. So we can truncate the devices of the devil and nip them straight in the bud. Because "He frustrates the token of the liars and maketh diviners mad." ( ).
Our second introductory scripture shows that there are schemes all over life and only the Spirit of God can reveal and defeat them. Nothing just happens. It first occurs in the spirit. A real place with personalities that can influence your future - positively or negatively. If you want to know a failure, they may be beautiful or handsome or possess physical resources but they will fail because they depend on "the arm of the flesh" and do not know the law of the spirit. Things are first worked out in a real place called the spirit realm. Every other experience that occurs after is just a fallout of what obtained here. People die because they first died in the spirit. People have auto-crashes because they first had them in the spirit - and they had no time to correct them.
Mind traveling or meditation during prayers is a blessing God has given to the Saints, but unfortunately the devil steals every good thing God has to offer from the church and uses it wrongly. Listen to this:
"...And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither.
And he said unto him, Went not my heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive yards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and men servants and maid servants?" (2 Kings 5: 25b - 26).
The word "heart" here could also be called the mind or the active subconscious. This type of travel which Elisha engaged in is varied from travelling through beset, dirty, barricaded realms and getting or feeling confused, frightful or unsafe till someone has to tell you "stop digging" which is not even the solution to the problem. It involves the travel of the mind or spirit through a pre-cleared, clean realm to obtain results or information. Listen to the case of Jesus:
"Jesus saw Nathaniel coming to Him, and said of him, Behold an Israelite indeed in whom is no guile!
Nathaniel said unto Him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Phillip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee." (John 1:47-48).
I always like to say something : "I'm not a blind preacher!" The gifts of the Spirit are there to help us solve problems, including future ones. How happy would we be if we averted a harm or damage before it could occur. That might sound strange to today's church, but not to the Churches of Paul the Apostle. The word of wisdom helps us know what negative or positive things would occur in future and prescribes a solution to the negative ones, while the word of knowledge just gives an inadvertent information albeit negative which must occur without any prescribed solution by the Spirit, which must be taken as the will of God on the matter, and which may not be reversed. After all, God has a mind and knows why it is sometimes that way. However, in each case, there is a revelation, and a solution and the mind is made ready. I am not a blind preacher who cannot see beyond his nose or possess the gifts of the Spirit so can be exposed to every spiritual hazard. In clear terms and clear realms, when we see in the spirit, we solve problems and have their solutions in the physical when we pray. Other than that we are left to be bombarded by all the unscheduled, unforseen vicissitudes of life. But for children of God, this shouldn't be the case. We should always get into the spirit realm as people who have the Holy Spirit and correct them, or life is purely a rambled, unworkable chance. What I mean is that you should never fly a plane physically if you've never flown it successfully in the spiritual either as a saint or a sinner. Even a car or a bicycle. It all rounds down to the fact that anything not first successfully done in the spiritual has no promise of success in the physical.
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LIVING BEFORE YOU GET THERE
LIVING BEFORE YOU GET THERE
