As we walk in Holiness, we will build the “temple” for HIS Glory to manifest in us!
FATHER has provided us with the blueprint to walk in HIS Glory.
However, in order to follow the blueprint, we must first withdraw and be still in order to hear HIS Instructions. Be still, hear, then do!
It is written by THE SPIRIT in Psalm chapter 46:
10 Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!
In other Words:
10 “Be still and know (recognize, understand) that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations! I will be exalted in the earth.” AMP
How can you know, recognize, and understand WHO GOD IS if you don’t quiet your mind and be still?
Jesus provided us this blueprint for knowing FATHER.
Mark recorded by The Holy Spirit in Mark chapter 1:
35 Early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left [the house], and went out to a secluded place, and was praying there.
If Jesus found it necessary to separate HIMSELF early in the morning, I will do the same.
Before Jesus started His ministry, He separated Himself as recorded by Luke in Luke chapter 4:
1 Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
2 being tempted for forty days by the devil. And in those days He ate nothing, and afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry.
14 Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and news of Him went out through all the surrounding region.
15 And He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.
Prior to selecting His disciples, Luke recorded by The Holy Spirit in Luke chapter 6:
12 Now it came to pass in those days that Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
13 And when it was day, He called His disciples to Himself; and from them He chose twelve whom He also named apostles:
I have learned over the years to not be pressured into making a decision without first separating myself from the situation. Once separated, if FATHER gives me peace about moving forward, then I do. Otherwise, I pass.
After an exhausting day, Jesus found it necessary to withdraw and be still before FATHER in communion.
Matthew wrote by The Holy Spirit in Matthew chapter 14:
23 And when Jesus had sent the multitudes away, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray. Now when evening came, He was alone there.
Luke also recorded by The Holy Spirit in Luke chapter 5:
15 However, the report went around concerning Jesus all the more; and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by Him of their infirmities.
16 So He Himself often withdrew into the wilderness and prayed.
You cannot busy your way to GOD. Your mind wants to go “do” which is a distraction to being still and KNOW GOD. Stop your anxious striving!
How many miracles had Jesus done before He was baptized? None.
However, as Luke recorded by The Holy Spirit in Luke chapter 3:
21 When all the people were baptized, it came to pass that Jesus also was baptized; and while He prayed, the Heaven was opened.
22 And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a Voice came from Heaven which said, “You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.”
23 Now Jesus Himself began His ministry at about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, the son of Heli,
FATHER was well pleased with Jesus before he had done one miracle. HE Loved Jesus for Who He is, not what He has done.
The very next thing Jesus did was to spend time with HIS FATHER, forty days and forty nights.
There is no such thing as intimacy without intentionality! We are to intentionally seek the Presence of Our Heavenly Father and HIS Glory. The blueprint in this example is to:
Be still, listen, then do.
Jesus spoke in Matthew chapter 6:
6 But whenever you pray, go into your innermost chamber and be alone with Father God, praying to Him in secret. And Your Father, Who sees all you do, will reward you openly.