Don’t Miss the Day of Your Visitation

This article is from a dear friend and co-laborer in the Kingdom. Brenda had sent me this word at the same time last month’s post ‘Riding the Updraft’ was published. It is a different view of the same word the Spirit of God is speaking, and a great follow-up that encourages action to let go, abandon ourselves to the will of the Father, trust Him, and follow our Lord wherever He is leading. Bottom line, we want Him and His way above all else. Time to enter the rest of the Lord where striving ceases and our flight becomes effortless. Effortless…that word keeps coming up again and again. 

Time to let go!

Be encouraged to fly,                                                     

~ Tammy ~

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Don’t Miss the Day of Your Visitation

By Brenda Sukut

                                                                                   

On February 12^th, 2017, I had an experience and then a dream right after. I woke up hearing…

"I Am God and you are Not!"

I knew that this meant that there is going to be a visitation by God for a season to the whole world that is going to bring a test that would show us if our plans that we move in each day are our plans, or God’s plans. Are we moving in God’s will or our own "self" will? Are we "God", or are we allowing God to be God? As we go through these daily tests, 

God is going to reveal to our hearts who is on the throne -- 

Him or us.

Our plans, if they are "self" centered, are going to be frustrated. Things we try to accomplish will become extremely difficult if they are of self. If they are of God they will come to fruition effortlessly.

He is going to be continually asking us concerning our efforts, “who is God?” Him or us? Are we God in our own eyes?

And when we see that it is us who has been our own “God”, we turn from it and we become humble. We become ok with His will. We turn from our ways and acknowledge His will. More and more we will lay down our ways and self, until there is nothing left, if we are willing. For those that aren't willing there is trouble, for people will be in much turmoil when God frustrates the ways of man!


[Tammy's Note: The heart and the working of our Father is always redemptive in nature. That's why He sent His Son to restore us back to the Father's original intent for us. He has laid Life out before us, and it is found in HIS way of being and doing. Righteousness restored. Our eternal purpose lived out in the fullness of Jesus Christ. BUT, it is OUR choice. Love will not force another to choose Life, that person has to come to that decision on their own. That is why this revelation of God to our hearts is eternally vital...not just for us, for all those around us, and for all people. We need to see, hear, and know with our understanding the will of the Father. IT IS a matter of life and death. Ways of 'self' lead to trouble, but the ways of God lead to life. Therefore, choose Life! That we would abandon ourselves to the will of the Father.

"See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is." Ephesians 5:15-17

That God brings His revelation...this is the mercy and love of God, for it is His will that not one would perish.] 


 

I then fell back to sleep and had this dream:

I was driving down an icy road. Two cars were coming towards me in the opposite lane. All three of our cars accelerated (God did this). The two people in the other two cars were trying to regain control of their cars and were sliding all over the road. They were trying to wrestle control of the car back from God. They were spinning out of control as they were trying to gain control. They weren't actually out of control till they tried to take over.

I knew that God had accelerated the cars and I just put my hands up in the air to "let God drive"- I had turned all of the car over to God. I did not do anything to try to correct the acceleration. As I continued with my hands in the air, I began to float into the air above the car and then began to fly freely.

                                                                   

"Self" does not drive God’s car well.

He is showing us what it looks like when He says, "I Am God and you are not!"

Don't fight with God -- die to "self" 
and let Him live through you.

“Woe unto him that strives with his Maker, a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth. Shall the clay ask Him who fashions it," what are You making?" 

or your work say," He has no hands?" 

(Isaiah 45:9)

“Look to Me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; 

for I am God, and there is no other.”

 (Isaiah 45:22)

This is a paragraph from a book that I am reading, entitled ‘Simply Sane – The Spirituality of Mental Health’ written by Gerald May MD. These words popped out at me, and you'll see why. He is talking about identifying self and realizing how much "self" controls us.

"It is a very difficult job to grasp the steering wheel of one's life and operate all the controls when one has no real idea of who's driving, where the controls are, or even where one ultimately wants to go. But being beyond "self"- control is a very threatening prospect. Being “out of control” sounds horrifying. It seems that, like Hamlet, "we would rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of". One would rather drive his machine blindly than give up the driving. The "self", as elusive and erratic as it is, as untrustworthy and in need of fixing as it may appear to be, has become very precious, so precious that no matter what price "it" may extract from us, we will not let "it" go.”

Here are some scriptures for further contemplation as we “let go” of self, and let God be God:  (Brenda’s own thoughts added in parenthesis.)

“Your own human power (self) wants completely opposite things to what God's Spirit wants. It fights against what God's Spirit wants. And so, you cannot do the things you really want to do.” Galatians 5:17 (EEV)

“Jesus then spoke to the crowd and to his disciples, ‘Perhaps some of you want to be my disciples’ he said, ‘if you do, then you cannot think first about yourself, and you cannot think about what you want to do. You must only do what God wants you to do. You must do this every day. You might even have to die (to your self). Then you can be one of my disciples.’” Matthew 10:38 (EEV)

[‘he who does not take his cross’ = Strongs:  Cross G4716 = Figuratively: exposure to death, that is, self-denial.]

“For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” 1 Corinthians 1:18 (NKJV)

“In the same way, none of you can be my disciple unless he gives up all his possessions”(your belongings, your ideas, your rights, your wants, your needs, your stuff, your ideas about how things should be or are, your beliefs about things, think of the things and thoughts that Jesus had to die to in his journey to the cross) Luke 14:33

We must search our hearts to see if we are as willing as we think we are to lay down everything, and more than we realize. I feel like that is when we would decide if we are “all in” or not.  [See Luke 14:25-33]

Are you all in?

~ Brenda ~