Glory to glory

Lately these past few days I have had a different presence around me. I have such a longing to grow. My spirit has been yearning out for more yet when I look around me my heart breaks. My flesh has been screaming no, yet my spirit has been screaming yes! I don’t understand what this feeling is…I feel like my flesh feels the oppression around me yet my heart is screaming out for Jesus’s love. The pure and holy love pouring down upon my soul, filling me up until I can’t contain it and feel like I am about to explode. How I truly desire for the chains of this generation to be broken, where we as a whole body of Christ can enter into the Throne room not divided by different denominations but be called lovers of Christ. Every day God longs for us to renew ourselves in Him. When we open ourselves up for Him to do work in us we allow not only our spirits to be refreshed but our physical bodies as well. When the Israelites traveled in the desert for 40 years God didn’t give them on the very 1^st day 40 years’ worth of bread. He daily gave them just what they needed for that day as long as they had faith in Him. Something I have come to realize is that I must push through seasons of dryness, of desolation, of this growing desire for Him yet not knowing where to find Him so that I can quench my thirst. When we do this our faith grows stronger because it is a time of testing.  It is also through these areas of life that we learn how to search for God when everything around us seems dead. I like to call these areas in our lives “Plateaus”.

A story to explain what I mean about Plateaus: there was a mountain climber who wanted to be the best mountain climber ever so he goes to the tallest mountain in the world and starts to climb it. It takes many days and he faces a vast multitude of struggles but through him being prepared for it and training his mind for the battle he conquered the mountain. When he got to the top of the mountain he felt so victorious, he felt so free, he felt like he reached a new area in his life. But at the top of the mountain he just got done climbing he sees in the distance across this long plateau is another steep cliff which signifies the mountain isn’t done….no one had ever imagined that there would be more of a mountain to climb but there was. In feeling that way, he takes off walking across the plateau to reach the next cliff to go even higher. Unfortunately when he gets there he dies because along the way to the next cliff he did not look for food or water which was essential for survival.

This story is what most of us go through in our lives. We face a “mountain” (a struggle in our lives or a tragedy) and we seek out God and overcome the mountain. Once we have, we have such a breakthrough. We get a revelation of who He is, how much He loves us, how much He longs for us to go higher with Him and to dwell in His presence more and more. It is in this time that we get on what I like to call a “spiritual high.” In which our spirits feel refreshed, renewed and accomplished in what we have learned and get insight we have received from God. Yet God wants to show us more and reveal more of who He is to us so He is calling us higher. Sometimes to go higher we might face a plateau and then another mountain like the climber did. It is in these times of “plateaus” where we must call out to God no matter how dry it may seem, no matter how much our flesh wants to quit and say you will never feel that feeling that you felt after that last mountain. You must search for Him and feed yourselves daily with prayer and the Word because there will be another mountain, there will be another attack of the enemy that you must overcome to get closer to God because the more spiritual fed you get the more vicious the attacks get because the Devil wants to keep you as far away as he can.

We must go from glory to glory. From the top of one mountain to the other and not perish in the plateau of deadness because of the devils lies. Moses could have quit, he could have said I can’t lead this nation of Israel any longer. Instead, he went up Mt. Sinai and saw God face to face and reached a new spiritual level with God. But the sins of Israel caused a 40 year plateau for him. Because of his perseverance and determination that he wanted to see God like that again, Israel was blessed. Because of his faith he got pass the plateau and was able to see the promise land ATOP ANOTHER MOUNTAIN.

God blesses those who diligently seek Him. This is something I am learning as I am typing this up. I am learning no matter where you are in your life that you must keep the faith. You must remember the days when all the time you felt His presence and not grow weary but renew ourselves daily in Him until we reach that breakthrough and go to the next level. I want more of God daily. I want to lower myself to His feet and worship Him. I am just a vessel for His work and nothing I own is mine but it is the Lords. We as the church body must surrender our lives and everything in our lives to Him because until we do that it will be difficult for God to use us. We must answer the call as David did in Psalms 27:8 “When You said, “Seek my face” my heart said to You, “Your face, Lord, I will seek.” There is so much that God has for us and our inner man knows this. That is why you feel a desire for more. The Devil misconstrues this and draws people into the things of this world. The emptiness that you feel, the passion that you long for is only found in God. Seek after Him and He will provide you the desires of your heart and you will be filled up with His grace and love….what an amazing feeling that is.