Without experiential knowledge, the Word in one’s life is incomplete. Receiving revelation and experiencing the reality of the Word in your life changes you. If you go to a church service and no change in your life results, the church service becomes just another religion or another form of entertainment.
Let’s look at the definition of entertainment. Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience’s attention.
Without manifestation or fruit, the Word is simply another reference in the eyes of the reader. The Pharisees illustrated this point. When you experience GOD, it changes you. When you experience The Holy Spirit, it changes you even more. Jesus ministered the Word and only those who walked in unbelief were not changed. The Word came alive and healed all who were oppressed by the devil and their lives were changed.
Many services have simply become another form of entertainment where people have a temporary “high” in their emotions but the emotion soon fades away. It is like a cloud without rain. FATHER wants us to move forward toward full maturity and in order to do so, we must change.
Many reminisce about the way it used to be yet nothing is happening today. It is like there is a famine in the land. What happened to all the healing ministries? What happened to the fervent calls for repentance?
Wisdom recorded in Proverbs chapter 25:
14 Clouds that carry no water
and a wind that brings no refreshing rain—
that’s what you’re like when you boast
of a gift that you don’t have.
The year 2020 has definitely revealed the state of the church in relation to its mission to spread the Kingdom. Much has been exposed concerning the political arena and the swamp is deeper than everyone thought. Those nefarious individuals did not just arrive overnight; they have been hidden in the darkness for years. The year of 2020 has definitely been an “eye-opener”.
It is recorded by The Holy Spirit in Acts chapter 28:
1 After we had safely reached land, we discovered that the island we were on was Malta. 2 The people who lived there showed us extraordinary kindness, for they welcomed us around the fire they had built because it was cold and rainy.
3 When Paul had gathered an armful of brushwood and was setting it on the fire, a venomous snake was driven out by the heat and latched onto Paul’s hand with its fangs. 4 When the islanders saw the snake dangling from Paul’s hand, they said to one another, “No doubt about it, this guy is a murderer. Even though he escaped death at sea, Justice has now caught up with him!”
5 But Paul shook the snake off, flung it into the fire, and suffered no harm at all. 6 Everyone watched him, expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead. After observing him for a long time and seeing that nothing unusual happened, they changed their minds and said, “He must be a god!”
The snake was there all along but was only exposed when Paul gathered up the wood. In an attempt to kill its prey, it was cast into the fire. Shouldn’t we expect the same today?
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Hebrews chapter 6:
1 Now is the time for us to progress beyond the basic message of Christ and advance into perfection. The foundation has already been laid for us to build upon: turning away from our dead works to embrace faith in God, 2 teaching about different baptisms, impartation by the laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. 3 So with God’s enablement we will move on to deeper truths.
Deeper Truths bring forth revelation and fresh experience appropriate for the needs of today. No longer do we need to focus on the past but instead walk in the greater revelation meant for us today. Let us not convert the current revelation coming forth to simply become the religion of tomorrow. We need to expect change in our lives to go forth and minister light and life to the world. Inactivity is no longer acceptable for it simply promotes lukewarmness.
2021 will certainly be a year of change for the entire world, both good and bad will be fully exposed. We will not return to what many called “normal” of the previous years. FATHER has definitely “stirred the pot” and the hidden things of the past are being revealed. The impure will be exposed and repentance will be required.