Every Spiritual Blessing

     While David sat on a hillside tending his father’s sheep, he learned to commune with God. He journaled those precious times in many of his Psalms. Later, when he found himself in the wilderness of Judah, even though he had been anointed king by Samuel the prophet, he found himself recording his feelings once again. He probably wasn’t feeling very kingly in this rugged place of isolation. But hear what he wrote in response to those feelings.
      “O God, You are my God; early will I seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water. So I have looked for You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your glory. Because Your loving-kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise You. Thus I will bless You while I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name” (Psalm 63:1-4).
       Note, too, what happened in David when he communed with God, not ignoring the facts, but acknowledging the greater reality of intimacy with God. “My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips. When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches. Because You have been my help, therefore in the shadow of Your wings I will rejoice. My soul follows close behind You; Your right hand upholds me” (vs. 5-8). In effect, David was choosing the Tree of Life over the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Remember, good is good, but it’s not God’s best life.
        End-Time Lesson: In these last Days, we still see injustice. We still see evil and wickedness attempting to thwart God’s life in us. In the natural, it makes sense that this world brings us stress, anxiety, or perhaps even depression. But when we are “in Christ” we’re no longer restricted only to the natural facts. We’ve been blessed with every blessing in the heavenly places—the throne room of God (Eph. 1:3). “For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, ‘Abba, Father’ ” (Rom. 8:15). “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Tim. 1:7).
       The reason we don’t see these spiritual realities to the extent that we should is because we are more prone to speak out fear and confusion than the power of the heavenly kingdom available to us. Remember, Jesus said we are to release on earth what it in Heaven.
       The acceleration of lawlessness is to be expected because Satan thinks he is winning. He thought that once before when he crucified Christ. And that didn’t go well for him! Because he is not all-knowing, all-powerful, and present everywhere like God our Father, he believes he can still continue as the god of this age and eventually usurp God.
         But we already know that at the appointed time, God’s Mountain shall crush Satan’s counterfeit mountain. It’s inevitable because God has spoken it in His chronos agenda. This is why it is so important that we understand the chronos times and kairos seasons so that we don’t let the counterfeit mountain lay aside the hope of our calling. Part of our calling as the heavenly Esther is that we get to thwart Haman’s satanic plot to destroy the Jewish people who will have their 3rd Day revival at the appointed time.
        It just so happens to coincide with our rapture. For when the Jews witness our 3rd Day resurrection to be seated as the heavenly court, it will trigger their 3rd Day acceptance of Jesus (Hosea 6:1-2). From that point onward, Revelation refers to the reborn Jewish remnant as saints—those set apart to Christ and God the Father. They are redeemed and part of the family of God, but they are not part of the Church, the heavenly court, for they shall not believe until they see Jesus coming again. Of course, any Jewish person who accepts Jesus before He comes again shall be part of the Church and the Body of Christ.
      “Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit” (Rom. 15:13).