Well today, we finished the worship and went into our youth class and prayed. And the youths took turns praying in Jesus Name for many important things including the ability to guard against temptation and asking for God's will to be done. Then I started to pray aloud, after they finished. And as I prayed, it was as if the Holy Spirit started playing a mini picture in my head and started narrating that picture through my lips. I was amazed at what I was seeing in my mind and what was beng uttered out of my mouth! The Lord Jesus truly does teach us all things by His Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is such an important person... I could not function or minister or live without Him.
So in this prayer a mini vision unfolded. And amazingly, my spiritual children could see a glimpse of it too in their own minds.... I was amazed.
Here is what I saw:
It actually was a picture of a mountain. I saw myself walking up the mountain path and the guard rail was on the side of the narrow path up the mountain. But instead of leaning on the railing, seeing how close to the edge I could get, I was following my mountain guide who was just up ahead, and we were tethered together, like a mountain climbing team. So it's like the Lord is saying we need the guard rail, the ten commandments, but we should not be testing them, coming too close to edge of the path. Instead we should cling to our Guide, Jesus, who has already been up the mountain and has already fulfilled all the law and the prophets. We cling to The LIFE, Jesus Christ, instead of to the rules (guard rail). Yet we still remain safe within the guard rails and we leave them in place and do not trespass those boundaries. But our true safety is in being tethered to the Man, The Last Adam, Jesus and following His lead. We are not being led by the railing, or moral rules (as important as they are), we are being led by a PERSON with whom we are are IN RELATIONSHIP. Our Lord Jesus is the Mountain Guide who succeeds Moses and surpasses Moses in glory and is leading His team up the Heavenly Mountain of New Jerusalem (not natural Jerusalem). This is shown to be a current daily reality. New Jerusalem is a present truth ! And we are overcoming all mountainous obstacles on the path.
And we are going up higher in Jesus.
We are pressing on in Him, so that we may KNOW Him more and KNOW His resurrection power!! We are going to reach our DESTINATION and live forever with the Lord Jesus!
He is guiding us there today and every day, up the narrow way, that winding spiraling mountain path! And it was amazing that my youth were able to catch a glimpse of it as well as I prayed! God is so good.
I think a good passage for that would be Heavenly Mount Zion, New Jerusalem. Read Hebrews 12:22-24. That whole chapter compares the old mountain (Sinai and the law) with the New Mountain (New Jerusalem and the Spirit of Life in Jesus). I encourage you to study this chapter and let the Holy Spirit speak to you in Jesus' Holy name.
Bless you!
Happy New Year 2019!!
Pastor Curtis
Sun Jan 13 2019 3:11pm EST
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