Married to success or the prophetic part 2

By: TOROSBC

Within the age that we live many are speaking of "spiritual things" in fact all communication finds its font from the spiritual realm, and nothing enters the earth without having been uttered in the heavens. If the frequencies of the day were judged merely by words, many would seem to be so similar that differences would be very difficult to find. However whilst much is being said, the emphasis for the church is not the words, but the place from which such communication is spoken. Men might speak, and men might even say the scriptures, but does the frequency of their utterance come from the person and the place of Christ.

Reference scripture: Ephesians 1 Ephesians 3 Genesis 24 Numbers 22 2 Peter 2:15 Jude 1:11 1 Timothy 4:16

Paul speaking to Timothy states very clearly "watch your doctrine and your life" Such is the position of the church. We can speak of the realities of Christ and yet be out of the place of Christ, which draws those realities to bear in everyday life.

Christ himself spoke always from the font of his Father's love and revealed to his disciples, that the place he came from and spoke from would be the place he would return to. Ever living from this reality was the essence of his life.

Such as the kingdoms of old, whilst their governance expanded into large and distant territories, they nevertheless always governed from a place. The British Empire governed the continents for an age, and yet governed from the place called the United Kingdom.

Such is the position of Christ and his church. The bible is clear, that we have not merely been positioned in the spirit realm, but positioned in an ordained place, a living and active place, which is in harmony with our Lord. It is from living in the realities of this place that our words are marked as different from the utterances of others.

The response from many of the Lord's ministry was one of "a man speaking with such authority"

Such authority does not come through the acknowledgement of information, but through the personal encounter of another in a higher place, a governing place which brings the words of that greater authority to bear by a covenant of marriage.

For the church, it is the Lords desire that through marriage with his words we enter that place in which he rules and reigns. We accept the principle to be true in earthly marriage, the Christian man and women anticipate with bated breath the day of their union in an ordained place, where witnesses might behold the glory of their sharing through covenant. On the day the man waits expectantly for his bride to be lead along the prescribed route of the sanctuary to the place of his position, his place from which he will reveal her glory to the witnesses with gladness and joy by raising the veil.

The prophetic word has from the beginning always contained the revelation of leaving and entering, moving from one place (position) permanently and entering another. Truly for us to embrace the prophetic, we must embrace the fullness of being taken from the place of darkness and transferred into the place of light. From the tyrannical reign of satan sin and death into the righteous reign of Christ holiness and life.

We must see the prophetic as the vehicle in which we come fully into the possession of what we have longed for. Unlike satan who cannot give all things, but rather promises vein imaginations cultivated through vanity and deceit. Christ only promises those things he possesses; it is his lawful possession of all things that makes all things available to his bride. So we must lawfully by the spirit lay a hold of that which he desires to bless us with. For without possession, we are unfulfilled and cannot express him as a true witness (this is our worship). In Christ fulfillment comes because he unfolds and shares all of who he is, with us. However for this sharing to take place, we must live in his place.

Such as Abraham sent his servant to bring out from his tribes land a bride for his son into his place wherein he had journeyed thus far, also the Father has sent the Spirit of God, based upon the work of the Son to call forth those whom he has chosen for the great marriage to the lamb. Only by wholeheartedly journeying with Christ where he is can we share in the portion of our inheritance which we are afforded to see.

The life of Balaam

An account in the book of numbers enriches us with such principles and affords us with stern corrections.

The account begins with a King who calls on a prophet to assist with bringing an end to his fears of Israel's conquest over his land. The account draws on Israel as a people walking out the prophetic word, through marriage to God's covenant with them. Truly this is a lesson in and of itself of how formidable a people are who wholly follows after God, in his order and his way. Such was the accuracy of the prophetic that fear spread through the lands and the surrounding communities. Israel through the prophetic had left the place of bondage and was moving towards the place of Canaan. King Balak's fears insurmountable and he pursued Balaam the prophet to assist in weakening Israel so that he might drive them out of his land.

The prophet balaam whom was sought reveals the type of man who can accurately speak of the condition of the time, but does not possess the means to enter into the path which that future will bring. This prophet was a man reduced to seeing for the purpose of bringing personal success by acquiring temporary things. How we belittle the Lords work when we determine that the gift of sight in the realm of the spirit must be bought with a price of temporary sustenance.

Such as Balak was a man driven by personal success, so to he seeks after a prophet driven by the same sustenance. The prophet himself understands through his encounter with the Lord that he can do nothing, unless the Lord allows and yet this bears little significance with his own corrupt nature and standing.

Such is the case proven when the donkey whom carries him responds to the sight of the angel through divine intervention. First the donkey diverts from the opposition by seeking to enter a large field, then presses herself to move through a narrow way unhindered. Finally bowing down under the weight of such pressure as to accept again the beating of her wayward master. At this point whether she lives or dies, she will not move from her position. That which she sees eternally overrules the master who sits temporarily.

The donkey's response to her master is an interesting tuition of God's grace. In response to his beating she states, "is this in keeping with my character". Is this not the revelation which a man must possess through the prophetic, is not his sight to lead and impress upon him the fuller nature of the Lord. The donkey's nature of obedience to her master the prophet was subdued, by the revelation of the angel afforded through sight, as such her nature bowed to the realities of a greater force and authority (Truly creation bows to the sword of the spirit). But the prophet whom is bound by temporal things will still beat his way to a destination of possessing such things that return to the earth.

This is the danger of success in the midst of sight. The prophetic will always bring about the blessedness of provision. But the provision must never be sought; rather the fulfillment of the Lord's will must reign and govern in the heart of the church.

When the prophets eyes are opened he bows, but nonetheless the natures still has not changed. Sadly for this prophet he would never partake of such fulfillment, as Peter reveals that the desire for personal success, even with such sight did not conform his nature but rather reaped unrighteousness.

On the flip side, we find also the Lord testing his servant Job knowing full well the nature of his servant. Job reveals for us the benefits of the righteousness nature to withstand much diverse suffering. Satan himself challenges God with regards to Job by stating that Job's nature would change when the success of the prophetic life is removed. How confident we find our Lord on our behalf when we have wholeheartedly walked with him. What blessing to be found as an example to be tested by the Lord as proof of the quality of his own work. We are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for his pleasure. He beholds us with pleasure as a man beholds his faultless handiwork upon a statue or painting.

Returning to the man Balaam there is still much to learn, this man's unchanging nature would lead him with the princes of the earth at that time. His walking with them, even with the full knowledge of the Lord identifies that success is the ambition of his heart. To walk with the princes rather then to walk with men speaks volumes of private ambition. To walk with men of status is the success that pollutes the prophetic.

How the church must be willing to walk with men irrespective of what outer garments they wear, whether princes, ministers businessmen, workmen or poverty stricken diseased. The kingdom standard is all things to all men. Only a man hidden and abiding in Christ's humanity can walk with men, rather then walk with status.

Does not Jesus' life reveal such quality; he increased in favor with God and with men. Oh the riches of his humanity. Sinless without shadowy standards, without diverse levels. For him there was only one standard, one quality. The image of the Father he truly revealed. The blessed beatitudes gloriously manifested in flesh. He revealed there truly is no male, no female, no Greek, no Jew, no barbarian, no slave. But through him man is man; their appointed office is a manner of work, not nature. Nature must take pre-eminence over work, for nature qualifies office and work. If nature is corrupted, office and work is polluted. If office and work is polluted, the increase of lawlessness takes place. Where nature is righteous, the office and work compliments by increasing the government of righteousness. Of the increase of his kingdom there shall be no end. Of the increase of his righteous nature, through the office and work of the anointing, increases the governance of his humanity.

Wonderful counselor, mighty redeemer, when the church prophetically moves into her place, so manifesting one flesh with the Lord, we shall see what was once impossible as possible. A humanity enclosed in deity, the increase of such a government deserves to have no end but go on and on throughout eternity. Thus the Lord shed his blood, and the disciples saw only flesh and bones, when he resurrected before them. Does not the scriptures clearly state that Adam said of his wife she is NOW bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh, she shall be called women. Did not Adam shed blood, for the women to be created in his substance?

Such is Christ, his death poured out all of his blood, so as he to could resurrect before them in flesh and in bones. Where then is the blood after it was shed on earth? it went into the presence of the Father, it was sprinkled on the mercy seat, poured out on earth and sprinkled in heaven, his life ever pouring out upon us grace in forgiveness and entrance, so that our conscience before the Father in heaven might always be sprinkled and remain pure. Our Father wants full and wholehearted participation with seeing his prophetic will fulfilled. Only when we enter the prophetic without self by bearing our cross can we embrace with a clear conscience the fullness of the Fathers will.

Balaam chose through his own lust to walk with the prince's whose ways were for the preservation of their positions under the current rule of Balak. Rather then accept the nature of change the prophetic would bring in terms of government in the land, by virtue of Israel, he allied with men in whom government would never increase and who's position were always temporary.

The account of Balaam affords us much more lessons.

When Balaam finally met with Balak the moab King, he begins the first of three sacrifices and three prophetic decrees from which he would see Israel and speak. Prior to each sacrifice Balak took Balaam to a high place from which he wanted Israel cursed. Each place afforded a perspective on Israel; the last was an open vision of Israel in their full position.

This affords us the understanding that there are many high places in the spirit realm, these in and of themselves demand sacrifice, but nonetheless, these high places are not the abode of God, they are not his habitations. The position of Israel encircled around the tabernacle identifies where the prophetic word is being fulfilled. Being in the right place with God is essential to walking out the prophetic. Thus even though Balaam could see prophetically his sacrifice was set on ambition. Both King Balak's and his own desire for personal success.

This is where we must be very careful. Sight must lead to possession, and only can do this when we subscribe to God's prescription. To behold Christ's life and death is to embrace God's prescription for the age.

To share in Christ's suffering and resurrection is the only means for guarantee. Do not be deceived, many men are sacrificing their lives, many might understand death, but not die the way Christ prescribes. Paul states that he bears the marks of Christ in his body. Those onlookers could smell the same quality of offering in Christ upon and in Paul. Such is the prescribed death the Father alone will accept. Thus Christ states; "my will is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish the work" In that very statement alone there is none of man and all of God. Man is a great benefactor of the blessings of God's will being accomplished in his flesh.

This will is not that of a despotic King, or a satanic ruler, those wills bring heavy burden and great chains of taxation that can never end of debt. The will of the most high, is a privilege which liberates in the sharing of his holy life with us. Thus Jesus states blessed are those. It is a blessed state even in its sacrifice, because a true joy is revealed. Not happiness in temporal things that like a candle are blown out. But the forging of an eternal stamp that will never be removed. Paul's marks born in his body are the same eternal marks seen when the lamb that was slain entered the throne room. Sameness of death will undoubtedly reveal sameness of life.

Balaam's utterance reveals this when he proclaims "Let me die the death of the righteous and may my end be like theirs"

Balaam saw the smoke of the burnt offering, and realized the quality of what was slain, in the midst of Israel God had secured a place for himself amongst the people. No high place with altars could provide such a revelation. All they could afford through divination was a looking in part; they could not afford entrance into habitation. Only Christ's death can afford for us an entrance into the possession of such a life that the OT tabernacle revealed, a life where gold covered the acacia wood, a life where the humanity of men was encompassed in the blessed covering of deity.

Such is the present time, we can proclaim prophetically in part what we see, but do we walk within the reality. The reality of what we see, the substance is revealed in our death. The sweet incense of burning is the laying down of our will for the will of God revealed prophetically in our midst. Is our death daily like Christ's or is our death one which sources from our strength and personal ambition? Can we say that the outcome of our death is entirely God's will in all matters? It is in the very centre of this that we know and can be guaranteed in our hope. Paul states "I die daily" and in another place, "that to live or die is gain"

Thus there is clarity, when the "I" partakes voluntarily in the death, it knows and is assured. Everyman must know his salvation; everyman must work out his salvation and make his election sure.

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