Display of Power is unnecessary in Universal Salvation.

[Mickiel]

Look at Luke 9:51-56. In short explination, Jesus was beginning to inwardly focus on his upcomming death. He wanted to get to Jerusalem and get it on with. So he sent messengers out ahead of him to make living arrangements. They enter into a village of the Samaritans who didnot receive them, mainly because they knew Jesus had his mind resolutely set on Jerusalem. Because these  people rejected Christ needs, James and John wanted to command fire to come down from heaven to destroy them. Simular to a soldiger asking his command center to send down a couple of curise missles, because the president was denied living arrangements in a city. This is what humans think they can do with their Power, or even Gods Power.

Notice closely Jesus response to this most common  human request for God to display his Power:" You do not know what Kind of Spirit you are of."

Now this was not an insult to the diciples integrity, nor was Jesus insinuating that they were of another satan inspired spirit at that moment, Jesus was Speaking DIRECTLY about his Father God. God is a Spirit, but he is a certain " Type of Spirit." And the diciples were " Of that Spirit of God", but they didNOT know what kind of Spirit God is. God is NOT prone to display his Power, nor tempted to do as such by humans.

So I want to go into various aspects of this which will include;

1. Humans not knowing what kind of Spirit God is, and the adverse effects of that on our physce.

2. Some interesting things as to why Jesus set his mind so resolutely toward Jersalem, or his Death.

3.The Spirit we are of, is a Spirit that has the Power to destroy, but  DOES NOT want to destroy the DESTINY of human life, but conversely does want to destroy human life, or life in the flesh. And just as Jesus was fixated on his Death, the Father God is Fixated on Universal Salvation, or our Lives. NOT our deaths. Jesus was fixated on his Death, and I will go into why, but the Father has NEVER been fixated on his Sons Death, ONLY his Life!

God is fixated, or consumed with Life!

This is the Kind of Spirit God is.

And I want to go into that.

Peace.

[Mickiel]

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Notice closely Jesus response to this most common  human request for God to display his Power:" You do not know what Kind of Spirit you are of."

. God is NOT prone to display his Power, nor tempted to do as such by humans.

So I want to go into various aspects of this which will include;

1. Humans not knowing what kind of Spirit God is, and the adverse effects of that on our physce.

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Did you know that asking God for his Spirit, is asking him to display his Power? Because IF he does give it, then his Power will be on display, in you, or so it SHOULD be! Oh but its not really like this, in so many its just verbal display, with nothing in their lives to back it up in reality, just the lust of their own minds. In many cases, asking God for his Holy Spirit, is just like asking him to send his fire down and destroy someone. Its just something he is not prepared to do, no matter how much you think you are prepared. God is NOT the kind of Spirit that gives his Spirit, just because you ask for it. Or gives his fire just because you ask for it. God is a giving Spirit, he is that, but he gives based on HIS Spirit of Wisdom, not our wisdom.

The majority of times we ask God for things, we intend to place those things, or the results of those things, on display. We are going to want everyone to know about it. Because for some reason, we tend to think God is like that. We think heaven is a place where God displays his power, as if it is a " Fireworks Show." And we want to be part of the fireworks, and we want God to bring his show on earth. This is why many believe in the Kingdom now being within, its part of the " God bring down your fire now, at my request, aittitude!" Because we tend to believe that God will do that for us, as the diciples tended to believe that God would send his fire down from heaven to destroy a group of people.

The diciples wereNOT evil misguided worldly church goers. They were sitting under the direct teaching of Jesus Christ, yet they didNOT know how God the Father was. They WERE called of God, but didnot know God, but they knew Jesus. So you can know one, and not know the other. Or you can be in my situation, and just not know either of them. Or you can claim that you know them both, THEN your life MUST support that claim! Your words must reflect that claim. If you claim the fire, then the fireworks MUST be within you, IN Power! And I stand on that reality, one begats the other, or something is wrong. Wrong with YOU, not with God. If God is in your words, then your words will reflect POWER! And when he turns up the power, your words will reflect that. Your Life will reflect that.

Just as it will reflect when he hasn't.

Not knowing that God has NOT turned up the power, has had a very adverse, deceptive effect on the mentality of just about anyone who has made claims on God. Because we do not understand that God willNOT give at times, willNOT speak at times, willNOT rush things always, willNOT do what we ask when we ask! And willNOT give his Spirit when YOU think he MUST! Or when you thought he did.

We think he sent the fire down from Heaven WHEN we requested it, after all, does not he give the Spirit to those who ask? Does not the scripture say this?

Lets look at that. Lets see what it says.

Peace.

[Mickiel]

Again Jesus in Luke 11:11-13, gives a parable concerning God KNOWING just what to give his children. Its not really about asking for specifics, if we ask for a fish, God willnot give a snake. If we ask for an egg, he willnot give a scorpion. If you believe in Universal Salvation, then you are expressing HOW YOU THINK GOD IS! What he is going to do, how he will respond, what God himself is like. Its not about the asking for this, and seeking for that, its really about the SAME results for ALL! Its not about you receiving the Holy Spirit, its not about you getting from him what you are seeking.

Again Jesus  in vs.9;" Ask and it shall be given, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened." So what should you be asking for, YOUR Salvation, or the Salvation of " The World." Well, is God asking for or seeking YOUR salvation, or the Salvation of the World?

If we ask for, seek and knock for the Salvation of an entire World, THEN we are approaching WHAT GOD IS LIKE! Then you can get out of your puny self, and see a world changing, because of a God who has world vision.

And I want to go into that.

Peace.

[Mickiel]

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If we ask for, seek and knock for the Salvation of an entire World, THEN we are approaching WHAT GOD IS LIKE! Then you can get out of your puny self, and see a world changing, because of a God who has world vision.

And I want to go into that.

Peace.
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Now God really does has a very large vision, his first tendency is to give, I think no doubt there. So I think its no doubt he will give his Spirit, or complette salvation to incomplette humanity. I then think it just naturally follows that those few who can see the salvation of all, naturally can see themselves as being saved, and having Gods Spirit is just the next natural expectation around the corner from there. Its just being persistant. Again Jesus in Luke 11:5-9. Persistantly expecting God to give is the parable Jesus was sharing here. Not being against asking God for things, Jesus relates that it will be rewarded, because he knew God, knew what his Fathers predestined plans were. But Jesus knew that BOTH those who ask, and do not ask, will receive of the Father from his Salvation.

Its NOT the asking that will CAUSE the Salvation, or the receiving of the Spirit, but the Fathers Will. HIs will is to give it, not withstanding the act of asking. Yet humans would demand the act of asking as a prerecquisite of the giving of it. It then follows that humans see a need for us to display things to God, in order for God to then rerspond to us. AS if our action, causes Gods reaction. Which renders the giving of the Holy Spirit to be an act of human will and testement. And those who claim Gods Spirit, only offer human will and testement as their proof. And that is what they use to explain God to others, and to claim him for themselves. So selfishness is the root of these claims.

Look at Acts 4:32;" And the congregation of those who believed were of ONE heart and soul; and NOT ONE OF THEM claimed that ANYTHING belonging to him was his own; but ALL THINGS were COMMON property to them." The reaction that the receiving of the Holy Spirit causes, is for one to see the total purpose of God in Salvation, a common universal calling of all of humanity, not to focus on themselves as being the annointed and called out ones. It gives you enlarged vision, not self tunnel vision.

And let me get into that.

Peace.

[Mickiel]

Again Jesus, the gold mine of finding understand from God, in John 4:10;" IF you KNEW the " Gift of God", AND he who it is who says to you, " Give me a drink", you would have asked him, and he would have given you the Living Water." Now do you think for one moment that Jesus witheld eternal salvation from this woman, just because she didnot correctly ask him for it? Jesus " ALREADY KNEW" how his Father was and is, so the GIVING OF THE WATER, was NOT based on the Womans actions, but on GODS WILL! Do you think he based her salvation on her display of human power of whatever?

She didNOT know the Father. Display of Power is not necessary in UNiversal Salvation.

And let me go further into that.

Peace.

[Mickiel]

Again Jesus, the gold mine of finding understand from God, in John 4:10;" IF you KNEW the " Gift of God", AND he who it is who says to you, " Give me a drink", you would have asked him, and he would have given you the Living Water." Now do you think for one moment that Jesus witheld eternal salvation from this woman, just because she didnot correctly ask him for it? Jesus " ALREADY KNEW" how his Father was and is, so the GIVING OF THE WATER, was NOT based on the Womans actions, but on GODS WILL! Do you think he based her salvation on her display of human power of whatever?

She didNOT know the Father. Display of Power is not necessary in UNiversal Salvation.

And let me go further into that.

Peace.

Can you imagine God saying to the world, " Well I would have gave you eternal life, but you didnot ask for it." I would have done my part, if you would have done your part. Which is likened to saying, " I would have displayed my power, only if you will display yours." And from this, comming from the very scriptures of God, is born the mentality that if we take one step, then God will take the next two. Do you know what this, this misunderstanding of scripture, has done to the human physce?

Even those of us who believe that we have Gods Spirit, really think that we do, because of something that we did! We give our testemonys and always contained within them, is a story of the things that we did that day or night, and then God gave you his Spirit, the underlying glory is really in yourself, because you really accept the formula of you acting first, then God responded to you.

So we have the call comming out of the world, to come to Jesus, and you must choose to do so. But that call really does come from the world, it has not come from God. Thus we have a truckload of people experiencing the " Imitation of Spiritual Life." With the demonic world giving all kinds of support to substain that illusion, including what many have believed are miricles and definte Spiritual experiences, which they take to themselves to have come from God, because they WERE Spiritual experiences, but they were not truly manufactored by God.

But they " Appeared as God." And that is a hard deception to discern, because the human heart is geared toward getting any kind of spiritual experience that it can claim.

We don't properly reconize these intentional " Spirit world to human world exchanges", because we do not know what kind of Spirit God is.

Peace.

[Mickiel]

But they " Appeared as God." And that is a hard deception to discern, because the human heart is geared toward getting any kind of spiritual experience that it can claim.

We don't properly reconize these intentional " Spirit world to human world exchanges", because we do not know what kind of Spirit God is.

Peace.
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And we get locked into that pattern of naming it and claiming it. WE start attributing all sorts of expericences that we have, as to have come from God. We say;" God showed me this, the Holy Spirit showed me that, and we establish a definte relationship with this process, then we start depending on it. And if God be not the author of it, the demonic " Quasi Spiritual imitators", simply have a foothold on you that mask itself as God. And this is a very serious problem within the relm of believers, THIS is how the demonic world communicates most of their deceptive implants into the body of Christ.

" Well the Spirit led me to do or say this and that", and yes, it was a Spirit that led you, and it was A Spirit that led Jesus onward to Jerusalem, but which Spirit is leading you to your death?

And let me switch gears and get into the Spirit that leads to death, and how that same Spirit can lead to LIfe.

Peace.

[Mickiel]

I recall the movie, " The Long Green Mile", or something to that effect. It was the last walk down the corridor of a condemned prisoners path toward their death. Jesus had to walk this long green mile, and told Simon Peter in John 13:36, that he couldnot follow him to this path of death. But that he would follow him later. So it is imperitive for the qusai spiritual forces of this world to interfere, or mock, or look to divert any believers walk into Jerusalem, our march toward death. That last green mile.

Jesus in John 17:1, is driven toward the last mile, toward Jerusalem. The hour of his death had come, and what was amoung his greatest obstecles heading toward this destiny? His disciples. Study any account, and they were actually roadblocks, moreso than support. Jesus set his mind so vehemently toward Jersalem, pushed himself onward to his death. His brothers wanted him to live, to thrive and establish, because they misunderstood that his death WAS the establishment of a Kingdom to come. Jesus wanted to live, he didnot want to die such a horrible death. But he was of two minds. He wanted to be spared of this onsluaght of his flesh, but he wanted moreso his Fathers will to be done.

The qusai spiritual world bombarded Jesus on this anticipation of horror, pestered him so much that he prayed vehemently for his Father to pull him into his will. When Jesus said it is finished, part of that was the access of the qusai spiritual world granted to his flesh and mind, there will be no more of that, ever!

But there is much to glean from this, and I want to start on that.

Peace.

[Mickiel]

Let me give a list of things we think are necessary for God to do now, or have done, that God does not now agree with us on. We think its necessary;

1. For God to establish his church here on earth.
2. For God to work miricles.
3. For God to give his Holy Spirit.
4. For God to give the gift of Tounges and Prophecy.
5.For God to usher in the End Times.
6. For God to give explinations for all things.
7. For God to open up all knowledge contained within the Bible.
8. For God to perfect his chosen.
9. To bring his Kingdom now within.


Now these are things God has not done, only because he is not ready to do them. So the next thing a misguided follower of God will do, is usher these things in on their own, with the belief that God is doing it through them. Although none of these things have been rock solid established by God, the usurping believer must then establish the rock themselves. Or at the least give an appearence that they are established.

Now Jesus said upon a rock he will build his church, or meaning HE will establish it on sure firm grounds. Or you can say firm, steady, reliable knowledge and understanding, nothing wavering.

As Jesus headed toward his Death walk in Jerusalem, he was steadfast and firm in his comming doom. John 12:24;" Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself, alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit."  This is Jesus foretelling the meaning of his Death, and showing us what is to become of us as we march toward our destiny. Before we are born again, were just going to have a date with death, there are no exceptions to this. Oh you may  search for a way out, even ask God to lift that cup from you, not knowing that your death, your long mile, IS a display of Gods Power! Will be a display of Gods Power, just not the display that you would like.

And let me go ahead into that.

Peace.

[Mickiel]

Christ death walk  is misunderstood because of the pride in his followers. And I am going to show you that. Job 41:34;" He looks on everything that is high, he is King over all the sons of Pride." Do you see the Bible calling YOU a son of Pride! Well your Pride may well wish to escape this, as you assume the verse is NOT referencing you. Oh all other verses that rub your ego are expressingly speaking about you in your mind, but you avoid these verses. Because they will grab you and ground you, and send your Pride to its death walk.

God is calling his Sons, the Sons of Pride. And that Pride has a destiny with Death. Your romance with Gods Spirit, your in depth description of your so called receiving of the Holy Spirit, your claims of the Kingdom now being within, all these are the eruptions of your Pride!

And your King knows that you are like this!

Because he was  put to the test of Pride. Jesus was being judged by God during his Death march. He was brought to the point of ;" Not my will, but thine be Done!" And this is how the Father did Jesus, the Faithful One. And he is doing this to you! Jesus was brought to saying I am nothing, I do nothing on my own, and YOU, will be brought to that! Oh yea, its comming, its long overdue. You will be stopped in your tracks,. you will be blasted off of your Pride!

You will walk the long green mile.

Peace.

[Mickiel]

As we beam in on Christ Death march to Jerusalem, what do you think was on Jesus Mind? WAs he praying and asking for HIS ego to be uplifted? Did he ask for angels to protect him? Did he claim his annointing as the chosen one, the KIng, he who should be spared? Did he ask that his inheritance shine forth to the world for all to see? Did he claim innocence and seek to be the one? You know, the one who has the KIngdom within, the one who is Born again?

God the Father SET the standard, Jesus followed it. That is Jesus lot in Life. And its ours.

You reap what you sew.

Let me show you what Jesus reaped from his death march.

Lets compare it to what you are reaping in your walk.

Peace.

[Mickiel]

In Jesus Death March, he first faced Betrayal. Matthews 26:21, " Truly I say to you that one of you will betray me." Jesus trust was violated and he was delivered into the hands of the enemy. Now listen, if you consider yourself a called out follower of Christ, how are you going to avoid being violated by others and being delivered into the hands of your enemies? You think God is going to display his power by preserving you from what he did not preserve his own Son from? And this is what many of us are actively, and unconsciously doing. Because we don't want to die, we don't properly discern our own Death March. So we ask God to keep us from Evil, deliver us from even having to face these things.

But hey, have you ever considered that this generation might just be the last Passover for you? Jesus was reclining at the table with his 12 best friends and followers. He was at the climax of his teachings and service to humanity, and yet inside of this tight gripped unity, was a Betrayal. You got your calling, you got yourself  protected in your environment, just you and your family, and a website, and you think your safe from Betrayal and the comming death at your cross. So you ask God to keep you from this and spare you from that. And believe me, Jesus PERFECTLY understands that and relates to you trying to get those cups of pain lifted from your future.

As Jesus continues his Death March in vs. 31, " You will ALL fall away because of me this night, for it is written, I will strike down the shepherd , and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered." Now Jesus must also face abandonment and the deliberate dismantling of the unity he had spent his ministry building up.  You still think you want to be called by God? You better look at this, because IF God calls you, your going to go through a Death March of your own. Family, friends, church, nothing is sacred, nothing will be spared, its all free game with God.

Ask Job, when you meet him. Ask him.

You need to understand how God displsays his Power.

But lets continue with Jesus Death March.

Peace.

[Mickiel]

I was meditating the other day, and I told God some of the same things I have always told him about me; It goes like this: " You know God, if you take this sin from me, and remove this weakness, straighten out this problem, don't you know I would be a far better man to serve you the remaining of my Life?" Just change me Father, build me up, ( in other words, spare me my Death March, lift the cups of sin I must drink, take away the cross!).

I don't properly understand the principal of " No cross, no Crown!"

We need to sing that song to ourselves. No Cross, then you get no Crown. The selfish desire is to have Gain, without Pain. To have understanding without misunderstanding. To have a new birth, without having old deaths. To receive from God the benefits of his Power on display, without having to go through Gods preordained standards of suffering.

Not understanding that the suffering, IS a display of Gods Power. Jobs suffering, Pauls suffering, Jesus pains, ALL were standard displays of Gods Power! Again Jesus in Matt. 26:28;" For this IS my Blood of the Covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of Sins." Because of the sufferings of Christ, because of it, because Jesus was hurt, mercy was being squezzed out from his experience, Jesus was crushed so that God would forgive.

Understand this principle and relate and compare it to your life, AND your Death. And I will come back to this because its important to understand about your life experiences. What you may view as your failure, God conversely is squezzing the Life out of you, killing you, in order to ressurect you to another standard that awaits!

You CANNOT do this to yourself! And I will most certainly explain what I mean by that. But lets continue with Jesus Death March.

Peace.

[Mickiel]

Again Jesus in Matt. 26:34;" Truly I say to you that this very night, before a cock crows, you shall deny me three times." Jesus faced rejection on his Death March. His close ones asserted that he was false, they didnot acknowledge him. Their actions were a display of disavow. And Peter was the one that Jesus used to show an example of the solid Rock that all he had built was being established on.

You know, let me say something here. If you would think that you are being called, you have got to have it together man. Or woman. You better have yourself together,  because this is no game God is playing. God is serious , and he will hang your life in the balance, in order to see you through this death march. He will break through your pride and let you know, KNOW, that he holds the Power over your death. He will kill you if he has to! You can't play with a Power like that. You might think, well God I want this and I need that, but God is saying, NO, your life is going to reflect what I want, or I am going to snuff it out!

Again Jesus in vs. 38;" My soul is DEEPLY grieved, to the point of Death, remain here and keep watch with me." Jesus was SERIOUSLY grappling with this march, he was hurting emotionally and mentally. His Spirit was seriously troubled. Jesus was in the BEST possible position of bargaining with God, far more important than ANY living being, Jesus was in the BEST possible area of changing Gods mind that EVER existed! But you know why Jesus was troubled, because he KNEW that even he couldNOT change Gods mind! The ONLY choice Jesus had was to die! To submit to his Fathers will.

Yet Jesus DID ask that this cup of Death be lifted from him. He did ask in vs. 39. He was of a mind of avoiding his suffering and death. I sure would like to speak with Jesus about this moment, because in the very same moment of his weakness, he showed complette submission to his Fathers will. Saying not my will, but thine be done.

Interesting, Jesus free will selfish mode would have changed the history of humanity, IF God would have granted it and spared him from the cross. But Jesus submissive will changed our history even moreso. And let me sidetrack into that most interesting dynamic some.

Peace.

[Mickiel]

And heres what I want you to understand about this most difficult subject, difficult for me to even express. We talk about sin and evil, discuss it from all angles, and I think we should. But the real discernment of this MUST come from God, not ourselves. Jesus had a cross to bear, and he was complettelt innocent of sin. We conversely are NOT complettely innocent, but what is our cross? What is it God will hang us on? Well its our Sins! Study Romans 7.

See we would like to believe that God is building us up by our righteousness, or righteousness begats righteousness. We are not discerning our cross, and thus we take our crown under false understanding. We view  the ugly in our sin, as that to be avoided and disowned. As if its not there, its forgiven, its done away with, so we live under the illousion that sin has nothing to do with our calling. As if you didnot eat of the tree. Jesus was sinless and in vs. 41 of Matt. 26, Jesus advised that we pray, as he did, that we do not enter into temptation. And I think he was being over protective of us when he said this, because he Loves us. He ratified that in John 17:15 by explaining to his Father;" I do not Ask thee to take them out of the world, but at least keep them from the " Evil One."

Here again is Jesus unique submission to his Father, him standing in the cut for us. He knew and understood that we cannot escape the cross of sin, so he got for us what he could, to keep us from being destroyed by satan, or possessed by satan. So I don't think an annointed person of God can be possessed by satan, or just totally taken over. Look at Matt. 24:22, later part of verse;" But for the elect sake those days shall be shortened." Because of Jesus appeal to God, even the Trubilation will be reduced. So Jesus got done what he could, he made sure that we would benefit as much as possible from God the Father.

And that is the ultimate thinking that we should have in our Lives and our death march, trying to get the most possible benefits for OTHERS that we can possibily squezze from the Father. 

And I want to go into what this kind of praying and living does to God, how it truly releases his Power. Look at what Christ negotiated for us, what are you getting for others?

Peace.

[Mickiel]

The innocent of God still suffered, still had to die, so what do you expect from him with the quilty? See we think on things, believe things based on ourselves. And THEN we are influenced by others. Pilate tried to release Jesus 4 times, but then finally pronounced sentence based on OTHERS demand, Luke  23:24. Even Pilate couldnot change a course of history that God had determined. You life is the same way, your walk the same way. Its predetermined by God, what you are presently doing, IS a display of Gods Power, included in this is your inability to NOT change things, about yourself and others. The outcome is his, he who is alpha and omega. Were going to treat ourselves and others , based on ourselves, unless God intervenes with his Power. So if things do not change, or God does not intervene, even that, him not using his Power, is a display of his Power. Gods inaction is still a display of Power, a display that he does not need to display it. And I'll get more into that.

We  don't know how to display power or judgement. Again Jesus in Luke 23:31;" For if they do these things in the green tree, what will happen in the dry?" Jesus had been unfairly judged during the last days of his death march, from judgement hall to judgement hall. So him asking if they judge the green tree like this, how are they going to judge the dry tree, I think is probally a proverb in the form of an " Fortiori arguement". If the romans condemned to death the one they admitted to be innocent, how would they then deal in the future with those whom they found quilty? Or a total misuse of Power. Displays of bad judgement.

So Jesus was the victum of bad judgement in his death march, and so shall we be.  But let me show you something.

Peace.

[Mickiel]

Now lets say that I wanted to gain approval of those here at Tentmaker, or any other website. The natural human thing to do, would be to rub the ego of others, agree with others, pacify the people and gain your crown. Get your place in their hearts. Your judgement is then based on a form of approval and agreement. This can come from a desire to belong and also from a desire for unity. It also is a unique form of not discerning the Power of God! Now ask God to help you see this. Why are you going along with others judgements? Is it because you want your judgements accepted? Conversely, why are you dissagreeing so much, is it because you need your wisdom to stand out?

Going to a website, can be like going from judgement hall to judgement hall. And what comes out of you, is it the wisdom of Christ, or what is it? You get judged very badly, and you start thinking you have been wronged. And if this does not change, you ask God to change it.

Why should God change it? What is the true purpose for your witness?

Lets look at that.

Peace.

[Mickiel]

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Now listen, God himself must witness to his truth. I mean, why not, its the truth, its his truth, it then falls to him to witness about it. And thats exactly what Jesus and the Holy Spirit does for God, they relate for him. But God does not have to change, in order to get his point accross. His true Power is in himself, he is very self confident, and knows that he is the ONLY Power that avails. Remember the times in the old testement when God displayed his Power, you ever wonder why he does not do that now? His people of old were given an advantage by his display, even that made little difference to the total scheme of evil. Think about that. Really, God really didnot have to put his Power on display, I don't think he really likes to, that is my own opinion. But he did then for reasons I will get into later.

Listen, God is humble, Kind, considerate, patient, all knowing and all powerful, what about that needs to be displayed? Here a God who likes to hide himself, starts dealing with the humans of this present day, don't you know that will be kept secret and discreet? If it reflects God it will be undercover, for now. And I will NEVER accept that the giving of the Holy Spirit to a group of humans can be kept discreet, NEVER! Their going to stand out like the light they will be! Thats why I am not into this wave of claiming Gods Spirit and his Kingdom within. I think God is PURPOSELY dimming his light, purposely holding his annointed at bay.  He will display his Power now, by NOT displaying it!

Again Jesus in John 6:39;" And this is the will of him who has sent me, that of all he has given me I loose nothing, but raise it up on the last day." Raise it up, BECAUSE it will have been down! Bring it to light, because it is now in darkness! Give it power, because it now has none.

So the real Power of God now is NOT on display, and THAT, is a true Power within itself. The Death March, the living stones, yet now dead. The ongoing cuncurrent living situation of Gods people, NOT being on display! Oh but how that bothers the ego and pride of some.

And let me avoid that and go into Gods witness of himself.

Peace.

[Mickiel]

One of my favorite scriptures is Isaiah 40:17;" All the nations are as nothing before him, they are reguarded BY HIM as less than nothing and meaningless." Gods witness of himself is to be examined based on these facts; He does not need to display his Power, he only excerts his Power accordingly , and based on his will. There is so much that God could do with his Power, he could readily convince this world in no time of anything he so wishes. He could excert a wave of Power into every human mind that is both conscious and unconscious, and instill anything he so pleased. He could change the landscape over all of the earth, and change the color of the sky, and introduce new creations into our reality. And you know, he will do these things.

I think the seed of this change is ALREADY in place within the bowels of the earth now. The fuse of this change is already lying dormant, and God only has to light this fuse with his Fire. But the seed of this change, the belief in it, can be in us also. We don't need to imitate this Power or rush it, as if it needs to be now displayed. And the fuse of this change is whats really in you now.

Let God light the fuse, wait on his power to bring about change within you. Don't look to light this up yourself.

Peace.