Joh 3:1-5 KJV There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: (2) The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. (3) Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. (4) Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? (5) Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Seeing and Entering are two phases of an experience of progress that God allows those who hunger after him to face.
YOUR FLESH. God always shows us something first before we enter it.
No steps are needed to SEE the thing God wants you to enter.
The devil can rest in a lot of things since he started something in our own flesh that will do a lot of his work for him.
But a crisis occurs when see something and God wants us to enter it.
Our flesh enjoys comfort.
There is another comfort that is spiritual and very good.
If you ever get in the will of God, a comfort comes upon you that you re safe and you are free of the burden of not being right with God. Never get comfortable outside of God's will.
WE MUST TRUST GOD. TRUST is a big word.
There are two aspects of our lives that stand out in these times. FLESH and SPIRIT. Comfort is enjoyable in any form.
2Co 4:18 KJV While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. Heb 11:25 KJV Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; We need to cater to the things of the Spirit.
Rom 8:5-6 KJV For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. (6) For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. We all want joy.
Mat 6:19-21 KJV Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: (20) But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: (21) For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. When God shows us a realm to enter, He wants us to enter it then.
But a crisis comes because you must leave familiarity with your present condition and situation in order to go into this higher one.
A lot of religion holds many traditions that came neither from God nor the Bible.
And when God sees a hunger, he knows it is going to be a risk when He shows you things you never saw before and desires you to enter them, because you could very well decide to not break your comfort and stay where you are. Num 13:1-2 KJV And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, (2) Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them. Before Israel would enter Canaan, GOD SHOWED IT TO THEM. And two reactions existed showing two elements in you and what each element desires. Num 14:1-8 KJV And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. (2) And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! (3) And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? (4) And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. (5) Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. (6) And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: (7) And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. (8) If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey. We all have those ten spies and Joshua and Caleb inside us. TWO VOICES. Expect Withdrawals from leaving your comfort zone when God calls you forward.
They saw giants and walls so thick around the cities, they knew a fight was due to come.
Faith that God is with us will remove all fear.
But the problem exists in lives when they do not know enough of the benefits of going forward with God.
You may know its best to do God;'s will due to a simple knowledge anyone really knows anyway.
TWO ASPECTS... you see, you not only have to SEE God's destination, but SEE WITH THE CORRECT FACULTIES. Gen 8:4-12 KJV And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. (5) And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. (6) And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: (7) And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. (8) Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; (9) But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. (10) And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; (11) And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. (12) And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. The raven went back and forth. v. 7. The dove went out and straight back in.
Fleshly people jump in and out of God's will.
Gen 8:7 YLT and he sendeth forth the raven, and it goeth out, going out and turning back till the drying of the waters from off the earth. Be honest and see ho flesh shifts and wavers. Jam 1:6-7 KJV But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. (7) For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. Legalism is attachment to flesh.
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