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Realizing The Promise

The Spirit has been giving many indications that this is a season for the fulfillment of many dreams and visions that God has placed in the heart of many of His elect sons and daughters. The Father has been declaring for a long while that He would raise up a people of faith who would manifest a strong CONFIDENCE in their God; a people of great courage who would do exploits in the earth to His glory.

These, beloved, are a people who will be known for their love for God and their love for people; a Spirit led and Spirit empowered elect remnant who will have a deep knowledge of the ways of the Father and a tremendous zeal for the coming of His kingdom to the earth. These people will even be VIOLENT IN SPIRIT for the coming of this kingdom.

But ... the Spirit is also now indicating that though many people receive the call to such an awesome ministry and work, VERY FEW will actually STEP OUT in the faith and the obedience that is required to receive the promise of it. Unfortunately then, this promise will just pass on to others.

In this past season, there have been many and various tests in the church which relate to faith and trust in God, but the Spirit has revealed that time and again these tests were failed by most Christians, the faith and trust and obedience of significantly maturing sons of God found almost entirely absent in a people. I can't help but think of the verse, "When the Son of Man returns will He find faith (and obedience) in the earth?"

It seems that due to the presence of unbelief and fear in the Church (even fear of what God might do if one fully surrenders his life and heart over to Him) the promises of God are not much being realized today. God will speak His promises to us, beloved, but many of those promises ARE CONDITIONAL, in that they must be mixed and united with FAITH in our hearts in order that they be REALIZED by us.

The absence of the kind of faith that leads to obeying the Father in all that He asks of us will surely result in the delay of many of His promises to us ... if not forfeit those (conditional) promises to us altogether. Surely ... this is something for us all to think about and pray about very seriously.

A brother wrote to me recently and said ...

"We have now come to the close of the church age and God is ready to change the order. The hour has arrived for the manifestation of the sons of God gathered out of the church age."

Now, I appreciate the zeal with which this brother writes, but I feel the need to elaborate a bit on what he wrote …

The truth is that we are entering a most awesome time of PREPARATION for that hour of manifested sons, but that hour has certainly not "arrived." What the Lord has been impressing upon me lately is that up until till this point, most all of us have received nothing more than a calling to sonship. We are now though, entering into the time of the choosing of sons. Many are called but few are chosen. Of course, this "choosing" has much to do with how we respond to the Holy Spirit.

Along these lines, I’ve been thinking lately about passages of scripture like that about Gehazi (who was more than likely one who should have received of Elisha's mantle, but blew it), and of the prophet of 1 Kings 13 (yikes!), and of Moses smiting the rock for the second time, etc. The Lord has been speaking to me through these things that He needs none of us individually to do what He intends to do in the earth in coming days, nor does He have an obligation to any of us to bring us unto "sonship."

I think here of what Elijah said to Elisha, when Elisha asked for the double portion of Elijah's spirit. Elijah (a type of Christ) said to Elisha (a type of the witness in the end of the age), "It's a difficult thing that you ask for. Do you have any idea what will be required of you for you to attain to such a thing?"

I personally have trembled before the Lord when He has downloaded some of the "requirements" of sonship to me. Certainly, to whom much is given, much is required. Though many zealous people and son aspirants of the day might teach otherwise, this is not an easy thing that we are asking for, beloved. I understand better now than ever that God can and will put any of us on the shelf (outside of the Kingdom) if we do not come to a place where we utterly lay down our lives in service to Him.

In knowing what I share here, I also rejoice, though, for I understand that along with the impartation of a healthy "fear" of missing out on the promise, also comes an impartation of God’s grace to fulfill (actually be CHOSEN to fulfill) that for which we have been CALLED.

My prayer today for all who have a hope of attaining to sonship is that they'll get a revelation of the possibility that they just might not make it to such place in God (in the coming age), and then by the fear that comes along with those thoughts, they'll cry out for THE GRACE that is needed in order to attain to it! (this has been my prayer!).

Paul clearly had this fear of which I write about here, for in no other way could he have lived a life of embracing the fellowship of Christ's sufferings, being conformed to His death, and that with the hope of ATTAINING to the resurrection out from the dead (which, as far as I understand it, is sonship).

Paul writes about this healthy fear of not “attaining” to this “prize” here ... "Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified." (1 Corinthians 9:24-27)

Beloved, may God greatly bless you all in your pursuit of Him, that you might be part of that blessed and holy remnant that will someday soon realize the promise and the glory of sonship.