My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being My priest. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children Hosea 4:6
Changing the course of world history is our assignment as believers in the body of Christ today but the key to staying current with the shifting seasons of God is the spirit of revelation. Without revelation we are completely cut off from the purposes of God on the earth.
It’s sad to note that it is possible to be busy about the Lord’s work, yet still be separated from His purposes. Revelation comes to enlarge the playing field of our faith, it also leads to encounters with God, and encounters forever changes us but a believer without an encounter with God, revelation will make them proud.
We need to be fully aware that revelation gives us access to the realms of greater anointing available to us, which makes that truth a personal experience and lifestyle.
The greater the truth, the greater the anointing needed to demonstrate that truth to the world and the measure of anointing that we carry, reveals the measure of revelation we actually live in.
The greater the truth, the greater the anointing needed to demonstrate that truth to the world and the measure of anointing that we carry, reveals the measure of revelation we actually live in.
Let me share some practical suggestions for those wanting to grow in revelation from God.
1. Become childlike: – At that time Jesus answered and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes” Matthew. 11:25.
Simplicity and humility of heart helps qualify a person to hear from God, while the desire to be profound is a wasted desire. The word that is simple is often the most profound.
2.Obey what you know-“If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God or whether I speak on My own authority” John 7:17.
Clarity comes to anyone willing to do the will of God. The willingness to obey attracts revelation, because God is the ultimate steward, investing His treasures into fertile ground and the fertile ground is the surrendered heart.
3.Learn the biblical art of “meditation.”: – “I call to remembrance my song in the night; I will meditate within my heart, and my spirit makes diligent search” Psalm. 77:6.
Meditation has a quiet heart and a “directed” mind. Mulling a word over in our heart, with a pursuit that springs from the inquisitive child’s heart, is meditation.
4.Live in faith: –“Whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them” 2 Corinthians 4:4.
Notice that the light of the Gospel comes to the person who believes which only means, revelation comes to the one expressing faith.
Live with the understanding that God has already willed to give you His mysteries and ask accordingly –Matthew 13:11- He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
5.Acquire an understanding heart: – “But knowledge is easy to one who has understanding” –Proverbs 14:6b. Proper foundations attract the builder to come and add to those foundations. God wisely stewards fresh insight to those who have the basic principles in place. When fresh insights come, the understanding heart has a slot to put it in. It is not lost as seed spilled on the ground.
6.Give God your nights: –God loves to visit us in the night and give us instruction that we would have a hard time receiving during the day – Job 33:15-16- In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while slumbering on their beds, 16 Then He opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction.
The desire to give God our night season flows naturally from the child’s heart that knows revelation which cannot be earned. Ask Him specifically to minister to you in the night through visions and dreams. Once you have a dream or vision, write it out, and ask Him for understanding. Proverbs 20:5- Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, But a man of understanding will draw it out.
7.Become a friend of God:- God shares His secrets with His friends. “No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you’’ –John 15:15.
He makes all things known to His friends and not only does He want to share all, He has invited us to ask anything of Him. John 15:16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.
Listen as He speaks, but speak only what He gives you freedom to speak about. Some things are revealed only because we are friends, and are not to be shared with others.
Love ReinaBeaty.
