Programme: Anamnesis 2023 (Day 2 - Morning Session)
Date: Thursday, 7th December 2023
The sayings of God announce His coming and precede His appearance. In this season, there is an elevated heaven hovering over us as a company that has gathered many waters of everlasting life, and that is about to rain. If we are sensitive, we would hear the sound of the abundance of the rain that is about to fall. God wants to rain down and bless us in the form of thoughts. The Lord releases His blessing by rains of thoughts from heaven. Every heaven has its package of blessing that rains down as thoughts. The blessing has to be accessed as thoughts. God is opening another heaven where everlasting life is, and bringing them to us as thoughts. Unless we are healthy and sound enough, we will not be able to access the realm of these everlasting thoughts. This realm is not the same as our realm.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. [9]For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isa. 55:8-9). The realm of God is not something that we assume; it is something we would realize when we have access and a breakthrough. The reason we cannot fellowship with the thought of everlasting life is because of the infirmities of our souls. This realm of thoughts and heaven is the realm of freedom. It is the realm where only the incorruptible can dwell.
“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. [19]If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land…” (Isa. 1:18-19). It is not easy to engage in this realm of conversation or reasoning together with God. This reasoning is what God calls fellowship. It is not easy for a mortal man from the fall to break into this heaven. Every heaven is a heaven of reasoning and understanding. We live according to our understanding, not necessarily according to our preaching. Someone can preach something and not have it as a conversation or understanding. The preaching can announce what God wants to do; it is a sign that the kingdom of God is near, yet it is still not a witness to Him. Satan has raised another heaven (thought) to antagonize and stop us from accessing the heaven of God. This season is a season of assault of thoughts.
While we were in the dispensation of the milk of the word, we did not have many assaults. And even in the season of Christ, it was not as tedious; but now, there is assault. All of a sudden, we begin to doubt the things that we once had no reason to doubt; this is not ordinary. It is because a limitation and wrong heaven are flooding the thoughts of dissipation so that we would be disengaged from fellowshipping with God's thoughts. Satan wants to bombard our minds from accessing the realms of God where we can sit and dwell.
God, from eternity, has come into the everlasting heaven and is ready to release His thoughts to engage us in this fellowship, but there are many distractions which are like assaults.
“(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)” (2 Corin. 10:4). These strongholds are not in the physical; the real fight is in the realm of the unseen where God is expecting us to walk in the realms of invisibility. This is a difficult thing based on what Satan has done in man to engage the invisible while he remains invisible to man. He wants us to fight in the realm of the visible because he knows that once we develop eyes to see the invisible, we will realize who he is.
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” (2 Tim. 1:7). The real attack of the enemy is fear. The spirit of fear is a spirit that wants to keep us earthly. It wants to show us the things we would lose when we follow the Lord. It is a spirit that seeks to culture us to hold back our pride which, if we have been liberated from it, will firstly bring a conversation known as the spirit of power via the spirit of the word of God. This realm of power is the beginning of life. It is the doctrine of life in faith (Rom. 1:16).
These three categories of power, love and sound mind are all realms of understanding. The real blessing of God is spiritual (Eph. 1:3). Natural blessings are also from God but there is a difference between the blessings from God and the blessings of God. The blessings of God are the blessings of Himself. To access these blessings, we must be able to come to the thoughts of the realm of that blessing. If we cannot consistently access God's thoughts, we will always suffer the assault of Satan.
The second phase, which is called love, is the point where we have to engage in the conversation that will bring the required energy to bombard every infirmity of the mind that limits us from engaging in that fellowship. This is where we find the conversation of brotherly love. It comes with so much heat and it is allowed because God wants to introduce an energy in our souls that would sever us from every attachment to the life that Satan wants us to keep. If we desire to have the thoughts of God, we must use two laws: the law of brotherly love and the law of the love of God. The aim of the sanitisation of the heart to be able to engage in the fellowship of God, as in the realms of everlasting life, is that we can fervently love our brothers.
“Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently…” (1 Peter 1:22). In this realm of brotherly love, there is often great pressure, and God wants us to become very natural in that heat. It is a kind of heat that will sever us from every limitation for us to gain the velocity of escape. You do not engage in this realm of fellowship with God through spiritual vision alone, as someone might see visions but not comprehend this realm. This is also the realm of being quickened (Isa. 11:3). In training us in this measure, God permits some dealings from everyone around us to train us on how to see the invisible. Everlasting life is the realm of the invisible. Satan wants us to use external things to judge our brother; and when we do that, we remain in the realms of men.
“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.” (2 Corin. 4:18). God wants to correct our judgment. Satan wants us to hold the same judgments on things that are ephemeral. God wants us to move from the realm of the seen to the unseen.
Fruits are products of thoughts that Satan wants us to fellowship with and by the time we finish eating them, our eyes will be open to things that are not. The tree can minister through what it shows; the tree can also minister through what one is hearing. By reason of the vision of the wrong fruit (of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil), Adam changed his direction with God, such that when God came back to where they fellowshipped in everlasting thoughts, Adam was not seen. Adam did not shift his physical position; he hid himself because he was naked. Adam got disengaged because of what he had been exposed to. Your position at any time is dependent on what you are seeing at that time.
This is a season to examine ourselves whether or not we are where we are supposed to be. God is bringing everlasting tidings but we have to be in the correct place to receive from God. Adam could not receive of God because he had changed position. Satan speaks to (tempt) man so that man would be displaced and disengaged from what God is doing. In this season, there is a place God wants His people to be and it is not earth. It is the season of ascension. There is a mindset that we need to have to join the company.
God wants to train us to exercise this grace to the point where it becomes so natural to us. We must desire to get to a place where we can no longer be offended or take record of offense. This is the place of our escape. Satan is the accuser of the brethren and he supplies reasons for us not to obey God. God will intentionally allow the heat of the fire that comes from the engagement with the brethren. There is something God wants to prepare us for because God Himself is in the realm of fire. Any child of God whom the Lord has raised and purified by His fire would not be afraid of the fires of hell because such would have been raised to the class of sons on whom the power of fire has no effect. Our everlasting race is according to what is consistent in our soul. The enemy of God cannot stand in God's presence because he cannot contain the fire. Some people are uncomfortable when shown love because of what they have allowed the devil to work in them. The love of God is a fire. Hate is another fire.
God wants to build us to the realm of fire, such that when we begin to burn in the everlasting fire, we remind Satan of his end. We are sons of fire, as such, we should not be afraid of fire or suffering. We should get to a state where we are comfortable with being in the fire. Many of us will not be drawn into the everlasting realm unless we are first thrown into the furnace of fire, and we see the fourth man in the fire.
Teachings about suffering are not for us to hold with a wrong intention. People do not show that they are suffering by the looks or clothes they put on. Someone might be going through suffering and look more cheerful than someone who is naturally comfortable.
Sometimes, when we pray for God to light His fire in us, we are thinking about the anointing. It is possible to enjoy that fire and be unable to stand the fire that is to purify us. For a man to stand before God, he must have gone through fire; he must have met the messenger that will purity the sons of Levi as silver. A man who does not go through the fire will never know beauty.
We must be able to withstand the pressure to be in haste to do things in seasons of delay. Jesus was allowed to go to the wilderness for the sake of the temptation which was a battle of the mind. We will also experience this warfare of the mind; no servant is greater than his master.
Satan bombards us with thoughts when we enter the realm of everlasting life so that we will not have the strength to stay through. God would grant us grace to go in and remain in the zone of everlasting life. Our going in or coming out is dependent on the thoughts we take (fellowship with), and the thoughts we do not take.
We need to do the law of love very well so our souls can be healed and be sound. Our souls need to be sound (without any impairment) before we can sit at the table of the Lord. This is what the Lord is saying we must do. We must not allow the devil to misinterpret the actions of our brethren; rather, we must look beyond the ephemeral and keep our gaze on the Lord Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, lest we be weary and faint in our minds (Heb. 12:3).
“Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. [4]Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. [5]Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus…” (Philipp. 2:3-5). Strife and vainglory is an offshoot of the ministry of the spirit of fear (2 Tim. 1:7). Esteeming others better than oneself is not a function of the class of people we are with, but a mind — the mind of Christ. If our Lord Jesus were to walk into the room, He would not appear in the manner we think; He is coming to reveal hearts. The further we journey, the more we must become low. God can only be seen by those who are low. When the Lord appears, we must not be taller than Him (in our hearts), or else we will not see Him.
“And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.” (Lk. 9:23). The amount of denial we have is commensurate with the amount of breakthrough we would have in this realm because even in the Trinity, They all deny themselves (Philip. 2:5).
Blessings!