We are intended to live from GOD’S Reality!
Isaiah prophesied this powerful prophecy by The Holy Spirit in Isaiah chapter 64:
1 God, if only You would tear open the Heavenly realm and come down! How the mountains would tremble in Your awesome Presence!
2 In the same way that fire sets kindling to blaze and causes water to boil, let the Fire of Your Presence come down. Reveal to Your enemies Your Mighty Name and cause the nations to tremble before You!
3 When You did amazing wonders we didn’t expect, You came down, and mountains shuddered in Your Presence!
4 These amazing things had never been heard of before; You did things never dreamed of! No one perceived Your Greatness. No eye has ever seen a God like You, Who intervenes for those who wait and long for You!
This prayer of Isaiah was a decree of something that must take place and did take place when Jesus was baptized in water. The Holy Spirit has been here for 2,000 years and there was no chance for those Heavens to be closed.
Part of our problem is that we live more aware of what the devil is doing and has done than we are of the Presence of GOD upon us. When I stay mindful of the enemy’s work instead of the Presence of GOD, I will live in reaction to the works of the enemy.
Jesus didn’t live in reaction to the devil; He lives in response to THE FATHER.
Jesus spoke in John chapter 8:
28 Then Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things.
29 And He Who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him.”
And in John chapter 10:
38 But if you see Me doing the beautiful works of God upon the earth, then you should at least believe the evidence of the miracles, even if you don’t believe My Words! Then you would come to experience me and be convinced that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me.”
And in John chapter 14:
9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.
11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.
There is no mention of the adversary or his works.
Jesus spoke in John chapter 6:
63 “The Holy Spirit is the One Who gives Life, that which is of the natural realm is of no help. The Words I speak to you are Spirit and Life. But there are still some of you who won’t believe.”
If you focus on the natural realm, you are not promoting Eternal Life. Instead, your mindset will slowly and subtly move toward the natural rather than the Supernatural. The adversary cannot force you but can only encourage you to stray away from Life, forgetting who you are in Christ.
Which reality to prefer to focus on?