Two things will prevail, the Word of God, and the love of the brethren.
I really do. And I think that's really a truth. It's about loving God. It's about loving what He's created, loving each other without an agenda. Well, I think we come to a place where God is everything in our lives and everything else, it's like secondary.
He has to be number one in our life. There could be no other God before us. We have no idea on a human level where the Lord is going to lead us. All we have is trust that, He is our God, and He loves us more than we can even imagine. And He's bringing us into a new place, a place we've never been before.
But how can you get there unless you absolutely put your trust in Him, and love Him with all your heart? I don't think you do get there without that.
Even the trust, He works in you. There's nothing that we glory in at all. No. He has to work the trust, He has to work the faith, He has to work everything in us for us to walk with Him.
It's amazing what this preparation that we're going through for this new level that's coming. And what you're saying is the prerequisite. We've got to go in with the right priorities. See, it's about experiencing Him at this time. And like you say, Ron, we're all moving into this new realm with different experiences.
And that's what's really exciting. We're moving together in spite of individual things will be different.
This has to be a reality to you. This has to be your personal experience. This has to be something that, that God makes so real to you that you can't deny it.
When God begins to bring something - new, new realm, new level, new awareness of Him, but we all become partakers of it one way or the other according to where we're at in Him.
Your experience may not be mine exactly or vice versa. Sooner or later, we're gonna experience what God is doing. The Lord turns something loose. He opens a new realm, a new level for us. And from that point, God begins to deal with us, not just individually, but collectively, to bring us all into the same revelation of Himself.
I see the one thing God is doing right now, and He's doing it for us all, is a greater revelation of how He is behind everything that comes our way in our lives. The Lord spoke to Paul when He first met him on the way to wherever he was going. He knocked him off his donkey, etc. And He says, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?
And then He said, it's hard for you to kick against the pricks or to kick against the goads. A goad or a prick was the thing they used to, to push the cattle along, the ox. He says it's hard for you to kick against those things. There's something in our nature, Adam's nature, it always kicks against the things that God has turned loose for really our benefit to bring us into His image. To bring us into a greater revelation of Himself. But we don't recognize that a lot of times, and we blame other things for what's happening to us. Our lives are ordered of God. And the futility that's in the earth, the futility we feel in our soul, it's all designed to drive us deeper into Him, to seek His righteousness.
God seems to be moving in each one of us. And the details are not important to each other necessarily. It's the fact that He's moving. He's moving with you one on one. We are so different, diverse, if you want to say, and each one of us have that very unique gift that God put within us. And how God is blessing you, and creating you according to that unique calling, is a very personal thing.
What does it require from me in your case? I love you, and I bless you. I don't need to know the details. All I do is reach into the heart of the Father, and I draw what you need, and I become a conduit of love, and blessing, and impartation. That's how we become co - creators. It's just to be a conduit, to be a channel of His presence and His love to one another. How do I love you? I love you with His love.
That's really interesting what you're saying, Dale. How do you define change? I think change happens, and many times you're not even aware of it. You don't even know it happened until you see the evidence of it. So many times, we'll just be going along, and the Lord will be speaking through different individuals. And all of a sudden, never heard that before, never realized that before. That was never a part of my life before. That's change. And that is the way God changes us so much of the time. It's about God. He's got to be the reason that you live. He's got to be the purpose of everything that you're about.
It reminds me of the young lady that her father comes to her, and asks her for her pearls. And she loved those pearls. They weren't real, but that she loved them because her dad had given them to her. But then he asked him for her for them.
She didn't want to give them up. No, Lord, I can't give you that. I can't be without them. Unless you give it to me, I can't give you what I'm going to give you. And so she gives them to him and he gives her the real pearls.
