September 18, 2000
As I have read many words coming forth concerning the apostolic move of the Lord, I have been greatly encouraged by all that God is doing and is getting ready to do. Yet, as I awoke several days ago, I heard the Spirit of the Lord speak these words to me, "Don't legislate my glory!"
Inherent in man's nature is to control. As mere human beings, we forever try to establish ourselves and our agenda on platforms that are built upon our own understanding and wisdom. This day, God is giving to us new measures of His grace to bring us higher in the spirit, to see things from a greater eternal perspective. It is only by His grace that we can step into the newness of what is upon us in these times. This apostolic/prophetic move will not be built by man's hands but by God's hands.
Yet, the Lord would caution every one of us that inherent in the heart of man is the need to legislate that which we can't understand. We long to place a name upon it, to define it, and to provide a structure in which this new move can rest and reside in. Yet, God's word, in Isaiah 66:1-2 says:
"Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. Where is the house that you will build for me? And were is the place of My rest? For all those things My hand has made, and all those things exist," says the Lord. "But on this one will I look; on him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at My word."
The Lord seems to be clearly saying "Do not legislate My glory. " In effect, He says, "Take your hands off!"
Let us not confine God's glory to any prescribed limitations that rise up from the heart of man. Let us never presume that the way that God is moving now will flow forth from what has already been established. A new day requires a new way. Let us humble ourselves before the King to see the plans that reside within His heart for His kingdom.
Legislation flows through regulation - laws enacted by man to govern according to man's rules and ways. Legislation will build upon a platform of our understanding and wisdom. This is so in the natural. This is earthly and rises up from the depths of man's need to legislate and regulate. Yet, the kingdom of God will never be built through legislation but upon revelation.
Release all plans and purposes to God for He is establishing this foundation upon His revelation. All order, all structure, and all purpose reside in the heart of the Father! Those who would build must access His heart receiving a clear revelation of Jesus Christ as revealed by the Spirit of God! Apart from Him, we can do nothing!
What is coming and what is already here will not be built from the ground up but will be constructed as heaven opens and revelation comes down. The foundation has already been laid in Christ Jesus.
In times past, when the Pharisees and the teachers of the law tried to legislate the glory of God who stood in their midst in the person of Jesus Christ, they could not comprehend Him. They did not see that He was the brightness of God's glory and the express image of His person. He would not be contained, regulated, or restrained within the confines of their law. So it is today. The increasing presence of the Son of God in our midst will not be contained within the rules and regulations that exist within our hearts based upon past moves of God, religion, or the traditions of man. He will supercede and rise above all that has been done up to this point for eye has not seen not ear heard all that is coming upon His church.
We are not to run to and fro throughout the land looking for that which already resides within us. Christ is in us, the hope of glory. Jesus rising up within us will bring an ever increasing revelation of Himself to us individually so that He may expand us in corporate unity to contain the measure of glory that He longs to pour into His Body, His church.
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