WINDOWS OF YOU

Windows of Heaven

The prophet did not say, "I will open for you the windows of heaven" (the man-centered view). The Lord said, "I will open you!"

"...I will...open you the windows of heaven, and pour out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it." (Mal. 3:10, KJV)

Could the comma be in the wrong place. Read it like this:"...I will...open you, the windows of heaven, and pour out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it." (Mal. 3:10, KJV)

The mind of Christ that originates in the Heavens comes into the earth through men and women previously marked for greatness. We are the "windows" (floodgates, sluice gates) of Heaven!

Simply stated, Christians are "the windows of heaven," and sinners are "the gates/GOVERNMENTS of hell."

"Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven." (Mt. 6:10, KJV)

The Church, armed with this truth and anointed by the Spirit, must now forcefully and uncompromisingly attack the"gates/governments" (the spirits that operate behind certain situations and circumstances), and bring His glory into the earth.

We are bound to Jesus Christ and His finished work! We must agree in the earth with what has been bound in the heavens, the "good report" of what our Father has already decreed over us.

"...the works were finished from the foundation of the world." (Heb. 4:3, KJV)

All those things are "finished." The Father's decree and the Son's agreement are forever bound into the warp and woof of the "everlasting covenant" (Heb. 13:20). It is the work of the Holy Ghost to help us remember all "these spiritual blessings" (Eph. 1:3).

In this Third Day, we are not just binding the enemy. With our life and lips we are binding ourselves to Christ's Person and work. We simply agree with God, with what He has already bound!

To not agree with HIm and His predetermined plan is to say "no," to tear ourselves "loose" from His loving embrace!

SEVEN PICTURES OF JESUS FROM THE BIBLE

HE IS REVEALED IN THE BIBLE:

1. In BETHLEHEM as the Lowly One.

(We see his humility demonstrated through his becoming a man and in his birth.)

2. In JERUSALEM as the Merciful One

(He extended mercy to those religion cast aside.)

3. In GETHSEMANE As the Suffering One.

(He submitted his will to suffering so we could know salvation.)

4. On THE CROSS As the Redeeming One. (He being perfect took our sins (past, present and future) and gave us His righteousness to bring us to God.)

5. In THE RESURRECTION As the Victorious One. (He overcame the last enemy – death and now brings us to victory through his life.)

6. In THE HEAVENS As the Glorified One.

7. In HIS BODY as the Revealed One. Revelation 1--22

He is waiting for all things to be summed up in Him including gathering us to Himself, setting up His physical eternal Kingdom. We will be fully restored to the original glory we were created for and enjoy living in His glory forever.

WISDOM

The Wisdom Of God- the Principle Thing

You have within you the Spirit of wisdom (Isaiah 11:2)—wisdom is the ability to use knowledge correctly—Jesus is made unto you wisdom (1 Corinthians 1:30) and you are daily growing in it and in revelation (“For I always pray...that He may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation [of insight into mysteries and secrets] in the [deep and intimate] knowledge of Him...” Ephesians 1:17 - AMP).

7 Pillars of Wisdom:

1. Walk in the KNOWLEDGE OF GOD (2 Peter 1:2; Philippians 3:3-10). It’s not enough to just know about God…you have to make the effort to get to know Him, and that comes from spending time with Him, communicating with Him on a regular basis, and experiencing a continual manifestation of His presence. God wants to be known, and you can know Him!

2. Walk in the KNOWLEDGE OF HIS PLANS AND PURPOSES. He made his ACTS known to the children of Israel, but He made His WAYS known to Moses (Psalm 103:7). Learning the ways of God is far superior to simply being aware of His acts!

3. Walk in the KNOWLEDGE OF THE SCRIPTURES. Study to show yourself approved unto God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed of his ignorance. Learn to rightly divide the logos Word so that you are able to receive the Rhema word (2 Timothy 2:15). Wisdom is found in the written Word!

4. Walk in the KNOWLEDGE OF LIFE—the kind that only comes by experience—by learning through trial and error…from your own mistakes…and by graduating maturely and soberly from the school of hard knocks. Jesus LEARNED obedience through the things He suffered (Hebrews 5:8)…Paul LEARNED how to be abased and how to abound (Philippians 4:11). Each new day is a learning opportunity if you know how to look at it correctly!

5. Seek to grasp a KNOWLEDGE OF PEOPLE so that you can deal wisely with them. (“But Jesus [for His part] did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men...He Himself knew what was in human nature [He could read men’s hearts].” – John 2:24, 25 AMP). Be wise as a serpent/harmless as a dove…be people-smart!

6. Embrace the KNOWLEDGE OF SELF—the truth that God desires in the inward parts (Psalm 51:6). Find your true self in the revelation of Christ…the more you know Him, the more you’ll know you! I am that I am.

7. Love PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE—to be, like Moses, “mighty in words and deeds” (Acts 7:22). Remember that knowledge is power! Head knowledge is good, heart knowledge is better.

"Wisdom has built her house...hewn out and set up her seven [perfect number of] pillars. She has killed her beast...mixed her [spiritual] wine...set her table...sent out her maids to cry...“Whoever is simple...turn in here!”...[God’s] Wisdom says to him, “Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the [spiritual] wine which I have mixed...[forsake the foolish and simple

The 7-Fold Promise

The 7-Fold Promise in the Abrahamic Covenant

“You shall be the father of many nations”: This speaks of creative ability. The ability to create multiple lasting enterprises. This is applied creative ability and those with that gift can change the world. 

“Your name shall be Abraham”: This speaks of greatly enlarged vision. By changing Abram’s name which meant “high, exalted father” to Abraham, meaning “father of a multitude”, God greatly enlarged his vision. Visionaries will lead the future. 

“I will make you exceedingly fruitful”: This speaks of abundance. Fruitfulness is self-replicating abundance produced without undue strain but rather by the blessing of God. 

“I will make nations of you”: This speaks of strength. God will equip us with strength that comes from that which every joint supplies in the community of believers we call the Body of Christ. It takes money to form the infrastructure that ties a community together. 

“Kings will come from you”: This speaks of leadership and authority. Kings go to war to capture territory or defend what they already have. 

“I will give to you and to your posterity after you, the land”: This speaks of ownership, wealth. He who controls the land, controls what’s on it. 

“I will be their God": This speaks of lordship. God is our protector, our Lord and our Father. As our Lord, he requires us to be generous, to give to others, to help widows and orphans, support ministries, etc. 

Through and in Christ we are partakers  of the New Covenant and a part of the Abrahamic Covenant.

(Gal 3:13-16) Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone having been hanged on a tree"); so that the blessing of Abraham might be to the nations in Jesus Christ, and that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Brothers, I speak according to man, a covenant having been ratified, even among mankind, no one sets aside or adds to it. And to Abraham and to his Seed the promises were spoken. It does not say, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, "And to your Seed," which is Christ.

THINKING LIKE HIM

THINKING LIKE HIM

God thinks differently 

If you feel as though you are going round in circles you probably are, Because God thinks differently than you. 

Isaiah 55:8-11 “My thoughts are completely different from yours,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts. “The rain and snow come down from the heavens and stay on the ground to water the earth. They cause the grain to grow, producing seed for the farmer and bread for the hungry. It is the same with my word. I send it out, and it always produces fruit. It will accomplish all I want it to, and it will prosper everywhere I send it.

We think in straight lines, God thinks in circles, consider Psalm 23:3-4 He guides me along right paths, bringing honour to his name. Even when I walk through the dark valley of death, I will not be afraid, for you are close beside me.

magalah = circle of the camp

The same word is found in Psalm 65:11 you crown the year with a bountiful harvest; even the hard pathways overflow with abundance.

The context of the path again is a cycle of seasons. God is thinking in times tides and seasons. Whereas we think in the now. We think revival he thinks harvest, we think upper room outpouring, he thinks marketplace. 
Jesus is coming for a Church that is in Harvest mode, not revival mode. Revival mode is a place of empowering, but that power is pointless unless we think like he thinks. “Power equals harvest” What would have happened if the early Church had of stayed in the upper room mode? NOTHING! In fact the early church needed a bit of a kick start and persecution drove them out of upper room mode and into market place mode. 

In order to know the tides times and seasons we need to have revelation from the Holy Spirit; He will help us see His thinking and his ways. Programmed faith will keep us in the upper room mode of Acts 2, Jesus wants to take us into the earth shaking mode of Acts 4 and beyond. There are things the modern Church has never seen because we keep thinking in upper room mode. The Apostles saw the resurrected Jesus in Revelation & harvest mode and they transformed their environment. They learnt to think like the master, in tides times and seasons. The Apostles demonstrated the gospel in power and glory and saw their circumstances as opportunities to show the maters ways. If they stayed in upper room mode the mysteries of God would not have been released. Its still the same today. The Church needs to move out of Program mode and into Harvest mode. If we do we will be amazed.

“No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.” 1 Cor 2:9 But: (1Co 2:10)  But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

Where there is revelation by Holy Spiriit, there are also manifestation of the Glory of God, because Gods thinking is being released into this realm through revelation. God is not releasing revelation for nothing. Rather revelation is being released to trigger harvest.

God thinks in circles, you think in straight lines! 

For instance God created Adam and they had full uninterrupted fellowship together. Adam sinned. God cast Adam out and fellowship was lost. God puts in place a plan to redeem Adam, Jesus wins back all Adam had lost, God sets about a total restoration of Eden, The purpose, uninterrupted fellowship. The journey to this point has been amazing, and it’s not over yet, but when it is over God will have taken the process full circle. Adam (man) will again have complete and uninterrupted fellowship with his creator. 

So in Gods thinking Church is about training for intimacy with Him, reconciling the world to their creator, teaching abandonment to His purpose and preparing his bride to reign with Him in eternity. In mans thinking Church is about telling people how to live right and be servants of the Church. Hello we have a problem! A direct conflict between God and his Church.

The wilderness experience of Israel involved amazing process, not a straight line but a circle. The Children of Israel in the desert went round in circles until the purpose of God was established. They received provision in the wilderness, they saw Glory in the wilderness, but this generation had never known how to fight and win battles and to rule over their inheritance, so the Lord taught them through their experiences, Training for reigning. 

In our lives God is more concerned about the process. This is because God thinks outside of time, and sees everything from an eternal point of view, we see things in the present and we interpret things from the point of view of being in the present. He sees the whole journey. The reason we don’t understand the journey is because we are thinking different to God. Think training for reigning.

The journey is exciting and well worth it, but it takes time to develop. It’s a waste of time waiting in the terminal for a 747, when there is a camel in the car park with our name on it to take us through the desert. Our human thinking wants to get to the journeys end quickly; God wants us to develop character along the way so we can rule over cities in eternity. 

Our part is to learn how to rest in His love and become abandoned to His purpose, accepting that Father knows best. God wants us to spend time with Him and intimately communicate with Him, to enjoy fellowship with Him, to trust and follow Him, and to give our life meaning and purpose. We want to rush to the end and receive the prize; he wants to build character that will embrace the journey and help us see that He is the prize.

“Thou hast made us for Thyself, O Lord; and our heart is restless until it rests in Thee.” St. Augustine
"I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things." Philippians 3:8

Even if you did nothing in your meditation but bring your heart back, and place it again in our Lord's presence, though it went away again every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed." Francis de Sales

Acts 3:19-20 Now turn from your sins and turn to God, so you can be cleansed of your sins. Then wonderful times of refreshment will come from the presence of the Lord, and he will send Jesus your Messiah to you again

The thing is, God will bring us to a point, if our lives don’t match the position we find ourselves in we need to turn around and let God deal with the issues that prevent a continued journey. It’s called repentance. As we turn we find renewed activity in our lives from the Holy Spirit. He will build in us the necessary character to come again to that original point, the circle complete and we move forward again.

Many become stuck, wondering why God would allow stuff to happen in our lives and become despondent and turn away from Him. The truth is He is thinking different than you and He will bring you full circle and ready to move forward if we abandon ourselves to Him and trust His thinking. 

When you throw a stone in a lake the ripples are never straight lines, indeed they are ever widening circles. Events in our lives never cause straight lines either but impact things that we hadn’t thought of or even known about. So we need to abandon our thinking to Him and come to the place of understanding that His ways are higher than ours and the journey will become easier to understand.

Trust God to bring you into the fullness of Jesus Christ, trust Him by abandoning yourselves to His purpose. Think like he thinks.
Tell me, what possible risk do you take in depending totally upon God? What risk do you run by abandoning yourself completely to Him? The Lord will not deceive you. Jeanne Guyon

There is no substitute or shortcut to gain the measure of God you desire in your life. Time before God in His presence releases the store house of heaven that is full of blessings and opens the flood gate of revelation you desire! Intimacy with the living God is the hall mark of every great man or women of God. Time in His courts help us understand the complexities of life. And give meaning to every situation we find our self in! We can’t understand His ways unless we abandon ourselves to His workings.

So if you are feeling like you are moving around in circles, you probably are. God is at work in your life. Seek fresh revelation of His thinking and move forward into greater glory.

THEY SHALL COME

They shall come: 

They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that He has done this. Ps. 22:31 

This a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light,1 Pet. 2:9 

His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them. Eph. 2:10 

This people have I formed for myself, they shall show forth my praise. Is. 43:21 

This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord. Ps. 102:18 

This is generation of Jesus Christ, Matt.1:17, 
The Sons of Zion, Lam. 4:2,  
These are The Overcomers, Rev.12:11,  
Kings and Priests, Rev. 1:6, 
The Sons of God, Rom. 8:14, 
The Bride of Christ. Rev. 21:2 
The Living Stones of New Jerusalem 1 Pet. 2:4-5, Rev. 21

The children of Your servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before You. Ps. 102:28 

And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord has blessed. Is. 61:9 

For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things. Zech. 8:12  

For the earnest expectation of the creation  waits for the manifestation of the sons of God. Romans 8:19 

For the praise of God shall flourish and the knowledge of the glory of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. Hab.2:14

They shall come; You shall come, have come, are coming and continue to come. Be encouraged!