Get God Out of the Box

                Recently God has been speaking to me very clearly to let Him out of the box that the church has put Him in, me included. Christ did not die for us to put limitations and restrictions on what He can do through us. In fact, it is quite the opposite of that. He died for us so that we would have no limitations or restrictions in Him. People, we have what we are here for so twisted. We have allowed doctrine to get in the way of our powerful inheritance through Him. We were made for miracles, healings, and signs and wonders. Not to be some stiff necked people condemn and walk in judgment (He is the only Judge), and only go to church and do “Holy” things to look good to others. To live is Christ and to die is gain (Philippians 1:21). We as Christians have stopped living, because we are restricting what God wants to do through us. We say yes to people getting saved, having prayer meeting, being intoxicated in the Holy Spirit, but no to all the things that Christ did. How have we gotten so removed from Him? The problem is that most of us are blind to this reality, and think that we are doing our best by just showing up for church. I would give anything to just be used to do one healing miracle. I burn to raise people from the dead, to make the blind see, to cast out evil spirits, to make the deaf hear, to make the mute speak, to heal cancer, to heal bones, to make the lame walk, and to bring restoration to the church. The fact of the matter is that we have this very power, but we just lack the faith. All throughout the gospels all Jesus did was speak and it occurred. All we have to do is to speak with faith and knowledge of the power that we have and it will occur. It didn’t say in the Word that He had to fast 40 days, pray 100 hours a week, and read the entire Bible in a year to perform a miracle, but to simply just speak it into existence. Now before anybody gets all fussy about this statement I encourage you to fast, pray, and read the Word but the point I am making is that it is not by works but faith the miracle occurred. In James 2:20 it says, “Faith without works is dead”. From the very breath of our mouths and words from our lips lay miracles. We are too wrapped up in making sure we don’t sin, that we do our daily Bible study, and get in just enough time in church that we forget what we are supposed to be doing. Yes, all those things are good to do and I do encourage them, but let us not be so selfish. We are here to live for others. How many Bible studies do we need to do to gain the knowledge that Christ lives in us and when we speak miracles happen?

Matthew 10:7-8

7 And as you go, preach, saying, 'The kingdom of heaven is at hand.'

You go-Journey

Preach-Herald (Public Crier)

Kingdom-Realm

Is at hand-Near/Ready

If this statement made by Jesus does not get you stirred up you need revival. Jesus is stating that as we go through our journey with Him we are to be a herald (denoting that this should not only be in the church, but in the streets as well), and declare to others that the very realm of heaven is near and ready. The realm of heaven is with Christ, so near to me means inside of me only longing to come out of me.  Bill Johnson once said, “We can only give what we receive.” If we receive the kingdom of heaven, which we did once we gave our life to God and the Holy Spirit came in, then we are to give the kingdom of heaven.

8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.

Give-have power

Jesus is telling us here that because the kingdom is in us we are to heal the sick, cleanse the leapers, raise the dead, and cast out demons. We were given this gift freely, and are to freely give out this power. We gained the ability to do all these things by His death and we are to freely distribute this power by doing the acts that He did. We have the very power of the same God in Genesis 1 that spoke creation into to existence dwelling in us. I feel the glory of God when I read this very statement out loud. What a mind blowing revelation that is. Just walk it out in faith and continue to declare it until your mind can catch up to your Spirit.

As we go through our experience in life with Him we are to preach, and tell others that the kingdom is at hand. We do not have to wait for some glory cloud, cloud of fire, or booming voice because we have all of that in us. The power of God transferred into our Spirits when Christ rent the veil for us (Matthew 27:51). He tore away the very thing that was blocking us from being able to walk in the fullness of Him. We are not doing God justice by keeping Him in the box. We are acting as if what Christ did for us is nothing of significance except for a way for us to get to heaven. Christ dying for us is so much more than for salvation, but for us to live as creatures of heavenly places. We were His ultimate creation, and have more power within us then any evil principality. If God is Omnipotent and abides in us then we as well are Omnipotent.

Most of us do not have a problem with the reality that these things can occur, and some of us have witnessed miracles of God right before our own eyes. We freely allow these things to happen within the four walls of the church, but if He asks us to do this out of those four walls we tend to panic. It matters not whether He asks us to pray, speak, prophesy, or heal somebody outside of church our tendency is to tense up and chicken out. We cry,” Use me Lord, use me!” but when He wants to use us out of our comfort zone we forget our cries and shrink away. I am no different than anyone else with the fact of getting nervous to do such a simple task as pray in public. He began to speak to me and tell me that I have a fear of man when it comes to things of God outside of the church. This statement crushed me and my pride. I have boasted on how I cared not what other thought of me, and many who know me think I am one of the most carefree and insane people they know. I can sing and dance in the middle of Walmart, I can talk to any person at any given time, and really do as many whimsical things as my mind can come up with as long it is not pertaining to things of God. After this revelation I told God never again will I allow my fear of man to get in the way of what You wants to do through me.  There have been several times previous to this new found revelation that I felt moved to pray for people when out shopping that had limps in their walk and I did not do it for the reasons of what will people think and what if nothing happens.  Through this I realized I was a man of little faith and trust in Him, and not as sold on the fact that God is the only one that matters. I guess this is what I get for praying Psalms 139:23 “Search me thoroughly, O God, and know my heart. Try me and know my thought.” Well He was faithful as always and searched me up and down and revealed to me things I am glad to know now, but when He told me they were extremely hard realities to accept. Since then I have been making more bold declarations where ever I am at, and am longing for Him to give me opportunities to perform miracles.

Just recently there was a young man that I had met that is in his early teens, and I found out his mother had cancer. I hung out and played a board game with him and some others that night. After we had dropped him off back to his house God had me go pray. In prayer I hit a vein of intercession for him and his mother for 2 hours straight. God told me to anoint a cloth with oil and to give it to him when I saw him again today. He also told me that his mother was going to be healed and his family was going to be restored, and come to know Him through this miracle. So today before the young man went home I gave him this cloth and told him to put it under his mom’s pillow, and that I believed that through this his mother was going to be healed miraculously. He does not know much about God from what I can gather, but the look on his face when I told him this just beamed with hope and thanks. I told him just have faith and believe that this is finished as I do, and he told me I believe. I am now waiting on a testimony of healing next time I see him. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that when God told me to speak the healing as a confirmation in prayer it occurred. I told God I will do what you ask me to do in faith, and it is up to you to be faithful. I believe that this is going to be the first of many miracles that God is going to perform through me, because of my desire to get Him out of the box that I put Him in. In ever opportunity He gives me I give Him all the glory. The only thing that I can do is be an obedient vessel and the rest is up to Him. I am so glad He has come in and showed me my fear, lack of trust, and pride so that He can perfect me just a bit more. I have a long way to go, and will never arrive but I will no longer keep Him in a box.  

               

               I encourage you to allow God to move through you. All of us can perform the same acts that Christ and later His disciples did. That same Holy Spirit dwells in us. I urge for you to take Him out of the box and live in the omnipotent power that He has bestowed upon us. He loves us so much that He gave (John 3:16) us this power to walk in. He gave us the very ability of Christ, so please do not waste such a pleasant and beautiful gift. Serving God with everything you have, and seeking His face comes with a price, but the exchange is completely worth it. Open up the very kingdom inside of you and share freely the very power that you have received yourself. I covet your prayers, and will not cease to pray for you. Send revival God to this nation. Lord raise up a generation of Spiritual revivalist to usher in this new outpouring that is descending from heaven. It is a NOW time to Arise and shine, because the glory is truly among us (Isaiah 60:1)! AMEN!