DEMONSTRATION OF GOD’S REST.

There exists a new life in Christ that we are to thrive in. The Spirit of Christ inside us is not just a license to our speaking in a tongue, though important in this walk. He is the Demonstrator and Administrator of this new life in Christ. When we fall into His administration, He becomes our Shepherd that guides us towards all that we require to manifest abundance of the feeding of the Lord.

¶ The Lord takes care of me as his sheep; I will not be without any good thing. He makes a resting-place for me in the green fields: he is my guide by the quiet waters. He gives new life to my soul: he is my guide in the ways of righteousness because of his name. Yes, though I go through the valley of deep shade, I will have no fear of evil; for you are with me, your rod and your support are my comfort. You make ready a table for me in front of my haters: you put oil on my head; my cup is overflowing. Truly, blessing and mercy will be with me all the days of my life; and I will have a place in the house of the Lord all my days.
- Psalm 23:1 – 6. Bible In Basic English. Italics, mine.

“This Is Your Inheritance - To Enter Into Rest!” All these conditions and positions; green fields, quiet waters, ways of righteousness, valley of deep shade, a table, house of the Lord, are not external, physical manifestations, but internal, spiritual positions. Through shady green pastures so rich and so sweet.  God leads His dear children along. The water’s cool flow bathes the weary one’s feet; God leads His dear children along.  Some through the water, some through the flood, some through the fire, but all through the blood.  Some through great sorrow but He gives a song, in the night seasons, and all the day long!

We are coming to an elevated position called REST.

There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief”
- Hebrews. 4:9-ll. King James Version. Italics, mine.

So that there is still a Sabbath-keeping for the people of God. For the man who comes into his rest has had rest from his works, as God did from his. Because of this, let us have a strong desire to come into that rest, and let no one go after the example of those who went against God's orders.
- Hebrews 4:9-11. Bible In Basic English. Italics, mine.

Rest is our inheritance. You don’t inherit what you have worked for, but you acquire what somebody else has already laboured for. As The people of God we will have come to the end of our own ways, we will have tried our wits out to fend for ourselves and to satisfy ourselves. We will not know from where comes our deliverance. We shall look here and there for help, we shall call this one and that one to ‘bail’ us out, but the arm of flesh shall fail us, for our help comes alone from the Lord. It shall be needful for us to look up to the Lord, knowing that He truly cares for us and love us and has promised that we shall never be ashamed. God is in effect bringing His people to such an hour where their all-sufficiency shall be in Him. In that moment, it shall seem as if all talents and natural abilities shall fail. All natural abilities, given by the Lord to such a people would have wholly surrendered unto Him that He might be all in all in the lives of His own.

In this season of the culmination of the harvest of the Lord, it should not pass over the people of God without making a greater effort to possess that which He has promised us.

“Are you willing to pay the full price of that which I have committed unto you as a sign unto My people? The price is all that you have, but I shall recompense thee greatly and you shall know that I have been in it and have ordained it all. Possess the land, even this mountain, and you shall be glad, for it shall be a token unto you that I shall bring to an end all striving in your flesh to do those things that are appointed unto you.” He says.

As we will be basking in the beauty of this mountain of rest in the Lord we will at times wonder of what the Lord is teaching us.

“There is a place of quiet rest, near to the heart of God.” It will all be about peace. It will be awkward to think of it but, we will be laughing with joy. It will be as if the Lord were speaking directly to us, confirming His Word to us! His processes are to us a procedure to make us a sign, a beacon, a way – shower to the rest of the people who are in pursuit of His will and purposes.

When we have, in faith, spent all that we have and are to pursue the position of rest in Him, our inheritance will be released to us. The timing of the Lord is incredible. He is never a moment too late!

For this cause says the Lord God, My servants will have food, but you will be in need of food: my servants will have drink, but you will be dry: my servants will have joy, but you will be shamed:
My servants will make songs in the joy of their hearts, but you will be crying for sorrow, and making sounds of grief from a broken spirit.
- Isaiah 65:13, 14. Bible In Basic English. Italics, mine.

 In the process of time, our present position away from His rest will no longer be practical for us. Asking the Lord to make His will clear to us in the matters relating to our new position will be inevitable.

During such moments, we will feel freedom and release to discern that new position as it appears in the spirit. It is the moment to walk very softly before the Lord as we look at new realms of His leading in the Spirit.

Prayer in these times is not an asking for or about ‘things’ at all. It’s just seeking the Lord. In those times, impressions are a familiar zone. Being sensitive as to hear (or, should I say, see) these impressions even when we pray is of utmost importance as they tend to remain uppermost in our thoughts.

In prayer, matters of redemption become intricate. By redemption, we are seeking for something different from salvation but all the same part of it. We have salvation; we are searching for the divine nature of the Lord to be inworked into our life. That is what rings about salvation.

Full redemption. Now, that sounds quite a different matter! Full redemption, or salvation, is,“…the salvation of our bodies.” - Romans. 8:23.

And not only so, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we have sorrow in our minds, waiting for the time when we will take our place as sons, that is, the salvation of our bodies.

For we are conscious that all living things are weeping and sorrowing in pain together till now.
- Romans 8:23, 22. Bible In Basic English. Italics, mine.

We are coming into His rest, and ceasing from our own works. One must enter into rest before he can hope to possess the fullness of his redemption. The rest flows into and is a part of the fullness.

The world so often portrays the things of the Spirit if we have spiritual eyes to see and to hear.

And then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud, with power and great glory. But when these things come about, (the things between verses 20 – 26) let your heads be lifted up, because your salvation is near.
- Luke 21:27, 28. Bible In Basic English.

The Lord, for some practical purposes, will use physical things to speak to us the things that happen in our spirits, as to show us the strange dealings taking place inside us to teach us of the various stages of spiritual experience that we must pass through.

Published by The Life Community, Thika, Kenya, 2010.

GOD NEEDS SOME BODY.

God being essentially a Spirit, without a body, has designed a law of delegation, creating man who looks like Himself, meaning, essentially spirit, but having a body. This body of man was created for dominion over the earth making it a prerequisite for a legal activity on earth. This is the reason why the Spirit of God could not stop at the "fall of man",as many supposedly call it, in Genesis 3. It was not that God was weak to stop man from sinning at the beginning. God could not stop the "fall of man", not because He was powerless or impotent, but rather because He was faithful to His word. The "fall of man" is in essence because of the faithfulness of God. This is also the reason why the promise of the Kingdom being restored back to the domain of man had to include and required the promise of the coming of the Holy Spirit into human bodies. The Kingdom of God coming and our victory over the enemy of our lives has to do with the coming of the Holy Spirit to live inside our lives. As part of His equation, God would introduce His own Son into the human equation. This equation was prophesied through the ‘seed of the woman’ – Genesis 3:15. By the power of incarnation, God would come through the man Jesus Christ and accomplish His own will. Throughout the life of Jesus Christ on earth, we can see His commitment to the will of God.

In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat. But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat? Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

- John 4:31 – 34. King James Version.

So Jesus made answer and said, Truly I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything himself; he is able to do only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does the Son does it in the same way.
So Jesus said, When the Son of man has been lifted up by you, then it will be clear to you who I am, and that I do nothing of myself, but say as the Father gave me teaching.

- John 5:19; 8:28. Bible In Basic English.

God needs a body to get His will done on earth. Through Jesus, He got that body and now through the indwelling of Christ in us through the Spirit, He has our bodies and He can continue doing His will. While Jesus was still on earth, He taught a secret of getting the will of God done.

And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward (their reward is being seen by men). But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

- Matthew 6:5 – 13. King James Version.


Truly I say to you, Whatever things are fixed by you on earth will be fixed in heaven: and whatever you make free on earth will be made free in heaven. Again, I say to you, that if two of you are in agreement on earth about anything for which they will make a request, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are come together in my name, there am I among them.

- Matthew 18:18 – 20. Bible In Basic English.

One of the keys to doing the will of God is the power of prayer. Prayer, in this case, is our arrangement to get God’s power into our earthly realm. When it comes to the things of the earthly realm, heaven responds to what we do. Our accurate behavior means that we can get all things done to affect our earth with a heavenly effect. Heaven binds or fixes what we bind or fix and looses or sets free what we loose or set free; or should I say, what earth binds is what is bound in heaven and what earth looses is what is loosed in heaven. So, accurate understanding of the heavens affects the way our prayers prevail in the realm of heaven. In other words, God will not do anything on earth without permission or access from those on earth. Those on earth are the ones He has given authority over the earth. So, if nothing happens on earth, it’s because we have allowed it. Prayer in this case is important because it is our means of constantly granting God permission to come in between the affairs of men on earth, in line with His will. Without God’s power and Spirit, we have no chance of affecting the earth for the Kingdom of heaven.
Augustine, an early Church Father, once wrote;
Without God we cannot, without us God will not.
- Dr. William Schwein, Giving God His Job Description.Quoting Augustine.


Without our agreement and permission through prayer, God will not interfere. But, through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and consequently through the corporate Son, the Body of Christ, God can indeed intervene. God has seen, in His sovereignty that there have always been people on earth who agree with His purposes and plan and through such people, He can obtain access, through their bodies and their activities to accomplish His Divine purposes in the earthly realm.

If we want God to keep interfering with the affairs of the earth, we have to keep on praying. And by prayer, we do not do what hypocrites or actors do.
Prayer to us means, agreeing with His purposes and presenting our bodies if so demanded by Him to accomplish that will. By our submission of our bodies to do and perform that which He wills, we are in this case doing what prayer entails. We are in harmony with heaven and that grants heaven access into all that in within our domain to be affected by God’s divine will.


For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him. And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.

- Romans 12:1, 2. Bible In Basic English.


Published by The Life Community, Thika, Kenya, 2010.

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