Hidden Treasures of Salvation

Cindy Allen

10 Dec 2003
Years ago, I received a different kind of visitation from the Lord. At that time, like so many Christians, I knew I was saved and "life" would be really good one day when I finally made it to heaven. At the time of my visitation, the Lord simply spoke to me that He had come to teach me His Word.

The first visions I received were of the Lord Himself. He would often appear to me in visions in different landscapes or surroundings and as He appeared to me, my heart would be drawn to what His focus was set on. Early on, Jesus revealed His will to me like this and He taught me to yield my will to His in all that I would do in Him and for Him.

Purpose can only be revealed and accomplished when our will is one with God's will. Accountability practiced through any standard of self-will is perverted judgment where people are enslaved through domination to the unrepented sin of others. Justice and mercy prevails where God's will marks the plumb lines of truth. Within the plumb lines of truth is the beginning of knowledge of God. KNOWING Him, we reign with Him in dominion in the heavenlies rather than through domination over earthly realms of mere existence. Purpose is revealed and destiny is obtained only through the Kingdom Life that comes to us through the resurrected Life of Christ.

From my first visions of Jesus, I not only learned to be attentive to what He would be focused on, but I learned to be yielded enough to experience HIS emotions. To walk in our own soulish life is to walk in darkness with no understanding. It will also deceive us into holding others accountable to our own wounds that can only be healed through the knowledge and experience of our personal salvation in Christ Jesus. Without the knowledge and experience of our salvation, we position ourselves as stumbling stones to the Body of Christ. God have mercy on us! This is also an ongoing, day by day process. Paul spoke that He died daily. So must we, lest we loose our way in seeking to make the mark of our higher calling where we gain Christ - the Life born from above.

From the very beginning of my visitation with Jesus, I began seeing patterns of Him that gave me the knowledge and confidence that I could recognize Him where and in whom He would manifest Himself. Most assuredly, He would always make Himself accessible (willing) where the Holy Spirit would cause my heart to long after Him. I knew that as long as I was teachable through obedience and a humble heart, Jesus would be reachable.

The visions I have been given were teaching visions that the Holy Spirit would use to bring progressive revelation of Christ to me for years to come. There was a space of time dedicated just for the purpose of hearing, learning and receiving the seed of God's Word. There were such blessings, revelation and fellowship with the Lord in just the seed of His Word, that my mind never delved into realms of wondering what LIFE may look like beyond the seed. I would later be led to experience this Life as the Kingdom of God was revealed to me as a result of my choices to follow Jesus. This Life of Christ came to me each time I chose to loose my own soulish life that held limited understanding.

During this time of planting the seed of God's Word into my heart, Jesus would often appear to me in visions revealing circumstances and landscapes that would be ahead. Oftentimes in my visions, I would be standing before Jesus and He would be looking down at the ground. I couldn't see, but the Holy Spirit gave it to me to KNOW that Jesus was looking at boundaries within the land I was standing on. Later I would find that hidden within these boundaries, were great treasures of God Himself as His salvation would be revealed to me through choosing His will for my life.

It was a transition to experience as I moved from the level of faith of receiving the seed of God's Word to the level where I had to walk out my faith to work out my salvation in fear and trembling.

Phil 2:12 - Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed-not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence-continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling. NIV.

As I entered into that realm of time to experience and activate the seed I had been given, I often found myself at crossroads where I had to choose one of two roads. I experienced the greatest upheaval in my personal life during that time as truths were laid open for me to plainly see.

1 Cor 4:4-5 Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait till the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men's hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God. NIV

I often had to make the choice of leaving "systems" and "spiritual structures" that were simply never founded upon the truths of Christ alone. They were merely traditions that cause us to wander aimlessly without purpose under heavy yokes of oppression. These systems and structures were in place in my family, my church and my business.

All in all, no matter what I suffered or experienced in the process, I was always brought into accountability before God Himself. No matter what persecutions, wounds or losses we suffer or experience, God NEVER places the power of our will or salvation into the hands of another. The boundary lines that Jesus was always looking at was that of my own will. Would I forsake all to allow the standard of Christ to be raised for others to see? Would I forgive all and continue to enter into the presence of God where I remain whole and minister from wholeness? Although my flesh has resisted the spirit life many times, the answer is yes. We always have access to the grace of God that enables us to receive of His strength when we are at our weakest point.

Rev 12:10 - Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: "Now have come the salvation and the power and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. NIV.

AMEN and for the Glory of God; let it be so forever!

Cindy Allen harpplayer2000@yahoo.com
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