Ron:
Very little; very, very little is being done sovereignly by the Lord because He's already done it all. But it's all up to our initiative, our appropriation of His nature. If you don't do anything, you basically stay where you're at. The whole point of it is to push you in a corner where you'll appropriate from the Lord, not for you to do better or not try to do better or anything like that, because you won't. But it's the whole point of it is that you get a clue, that you've got to have the divine nature. And so you start crying out for the divine nature in every aspect.
Dale:
First thing in appropriation is a thanksgiving out of my mouth. Thank you, Lord. That seems like that just turns the spigot on.
Ron
That's worship. You're positioned in worship and appropriation, because worship is appropriation. The worse the situation is, the better it is, really. You have a choice. You either become bitter, or you open up and you go, this is, this situation I'm in, no matter how hopeless it looks like, should be forcing me to appropriate His nature, because you need it.
Dale:
And see the thing, the worse it gets, the better it is. It'll be more thorough and more complete, and you won't have to come around the mountain again.
Ron:
Get busy and crying out to God to appropriate. this divine nature. This is the whole point of our life here on earth, is He's putting you in a place where you appropriate. You realize how limited you are physically, mentally, emotionally, financially, all those things. And you either accept them or you
you go, no ! That's not according to His word. And it starts to create something within you as a cry before Him going, this isn't lining up. I'm not becoming, not solving your problems either. That's not the point of solving your problems because He'll just give you a bunch more. The point is, He's trying to put you in a corner so that you'll reach into the divine nature and become something and you become it, you overcome them.
You overcome them. It's putting into action the things that we know. My attitude is an expectancy and an aggressiveness, but it's not just an attitude. I'm actually doing something about it. These things that we know and that we've been taught and has been imparted to us, they're not something that we go, yeah, yeah, I've heard that for 30 years.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've done that. And, you know, no, they're not old. We continue in those things because they are living things, that God's given us to walk in the Spirit. There are, call them open doors.
Dale:
God is giving you choices. It's up to you to take them. It's up to you to appropriate them. The provision was initiated by Christ on the cross, when He said, into thy hands I commit my spirit.
You commit your spirit to Him. That opens the door for appropriation, and it opens the door to everything. And He did that on our behalf and opened the door that we could do the same thing. He opened the door to unlimited, the promises of God are unlimited. And that's the day we're living in is unlimited, because the Spirit is unlimited.
Ron:
We're supposed to be able to see in the Spirit, hear in the Spirit, speak in the Spirit, move in the Spirit. We should appropriate the ability to do that. I need to be able to move as a spiritual being in the earth more than I am. It's not going to sovereignly happen because He's already done it all.
His works were finished before the foundations of the earth. That tells me, get off the stick. And start reaching into God and appropriating from Him.
Dale:
Where and when do we appropriate? Worship, communion. Those are two major places we can appropriate. As your lead of the Holy Spirit, could be a daily occurrence in your life.
It's cleansing. It's appropriating, the deliverance comes through worship, through His presence; walking in the provision He's given us, being those instruments that are walking out His will on the earth.
Ron:
This whole thing about the blood of Jesus Christ and that provision is the foundation of appropriation.
It always feels right to me when I'm reaching into the Lord that I reach in through the blood of Christ and through the provision He accomplished on the cross that's just like the basic foundation. This to me is becoming more simpler and more specific than I thought it ever would be. It's getting rid of me and appropriating Him.
Rick:
The Lord continues to increase. The day becomes brighter and brighter as we move on. And we can come and stand before Him, full of life, because He is life. And we come in with a boldness to relate to Him and to claim His promises. In Hebrews, it talks about those that obtained the promises.
We're those that don't just sit around and say, oh, wouldn't it be nice? But we're those that reach into the Spirit, reach into the presence of the Lord. We obtain promises from His hands because the relationship with Him is so deep and so true.
Bill:
Worldly wisdom: there's a saying, when you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on with the indication that without the knot you're going to slip off, you're going to fall, you're going to go a downward spiral and so on.
Spiritually, we get the end of our rope. I say, let go and you'll elevate because you're letting go of yesterday's thoughts, yesterday's provisions, good as they were. And you're saying, I'm open for something new. I'm expectant. I'm saying, at the end of the day, we should be richer in every sense of the word and relationships in our walk with God and our spiritual abilities and our physical health.
So that becomes our anticipation is that. God's got a road map here. Let's begin to pursue that. We've grown spiritually all of our lives, and we should still be growing, and we should still be appropriating, and anticipating, and declaring, and requiring that at the end of the day, you know what, I am richer spirit, soul, and body. And tomorrow I will be even more richer.
