Strange Things

"... but what the Spirit would have you know today is the greater measure of infilling which Jesus held."

IT WASN’T an Old Rugged Cross. Not really. Most likely it was new and had been used before. But the song, which coined the phrase, is beloved by the Father, whose death it portrays. You heard me. We know this is the true picture because in order for the Son to inherit, as is stated in Hebrews 1:2 and 4, the Father has to be the one who dies. Except, God the Father is eternal and has no darkness, no death in Him (James 1:13,17). So, He sent Jesus to take His place.

It is an interesting picture. Jesus is both the Son of God and the Father Himself in the truth of redemption. Jesus displayed the Father in all His works and all His words (John 14:10), but we can hear the Father speak plainly for Himself in John 14:9. This is from the Knox translation: “What, Philip, Jesus said, here am I, who have been all this while in your company; hast thou not learned to recognize me yet?” I have heard the Father speak. I have mentioned this to some, but His voice is the gentlest, the most weighty, of all. I saw His hands in a vision, and they are every skin color. That I cannot fully paint for you, but it is an incredible thing.

Why was this given to me? I cannot say, except that God is merciful, and He saw my need. He sees the heart of all men and women and works to draw us to Him, but He will entrust visions of Himself only to those who will treasure them. They come because of our humbleness and adoration. And, often, our silence. Prophet Hank Kunneman has said He has much written that He cannot tell. I echo this. However, revelation of the cross is freely given to all. Jesus spoke in parables to cause men to think AND SEE. It was how He planted the Seed of Truth. What has been revealed now, in God’s New Promises, we can hear directly from God through the Holy Spirit. But as mentioned moments ago, our heart must be His, and our thinking being renewed continually by His Presence.

The image of the cross is given to men to see Jesus’ sacrifice on behalf of mankind. He did what He did because only God could do it, and it had to be God in human form. Here, there is an amazing Truth. Of the suffering on the cross, yes, it was extremely painful. This has been illustrated many times and taught from history, but what the Spirit would have you know today is the greater measure of infilling which Jesus held (was filled with). There is a level of the Spirit where the physical is strangely dim. This phrase comes from a song, but there is new revelation from it. When Jesus spoke with His disciples, as is recorded in John 14 and 15, He gave them His own peace. Peace of mind, peace of spirit, and peace of body. He is the Prince of Peace sent by the God of peace with the gospel (good news) of peace on earth and God’s goodwill toward men. He came so that we could be peaceful peacemakers for all of our days (Matthew 5:9). We need not ever suffer conflict.

Yes, God’s peace carries that far and climbs that high. When the apostle Paul told us to become “a living sacrifice” in our physical bodies, it was so that the Holy Spirit could take over (Romans 12:1). He often works in us things we are not aware of. We hear stories of amazing supernatural feats done through men, the lifting of the weight of an automobile to rescue someone, for instance, we are looking for these more major sightings, when, we must see that He can and does, most often, work subtly. Why wouldn’t He? I ask you to sit and think on this for a moment. A beloved minister friend once said, When we all get to heaven, we’ll discover how much God has done that we were unaware of. This is a powerful truth. And I, for one, will be a living sacrifice whom He has used. I do not speak of foolishness but of being so in the Spirit, so led of Him, that He can count on you.

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” (Romans 12:1)

Minister Jesse Duplantis once had the Spirit send him to a hospital room, in a hospital he happened to be driving past. In it, a father cried out for his daughter’s rescue, and Minister Duplantis provided God’s Presence so that it happened. I cannot imagine being that obedient and yet, I can because it is throughout the New Testament, moments where men of God did what was asked of them and something amazing happened. We cannot expect to be used, cannot see these tremendous things, and remain selfish and afraid. Fearlessness ascends to new heights in the eyes of the Spirit. Will you look? Will you see?

THE MEN OF ACTS:

• “But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them,” (Acts 2:14)
• “Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?” (Acts 11:17)
• “And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.” (Acts 16:27-28)
• “Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.” (Acts 17:22)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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