HOW SPIRITUAL DESIRE BRINGS SPIRITUAL SENSITIVITY

January 13, 2012
MF Blume

  Scripture Text:


Genesis 6:7-8 KJV  And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.  (8)  But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

Noah followed through with all God required of him, when the rest of the entire world was caught away in wickedness and sinful pleasure.
·    He was diligent.
·    He found grace in God’s eyes and God set forth to have him build an Ark according to certain specifications.
·    50 cubits wide, 30 cubits high and 300 cubits long.
·    50 is the number of liberty and Pentecost.
·    30 is maturity – and height is aptly related to that.
·    300 speaks of the minority, and Noah’s house and the creatures were certainly the minority, but all God needs to start all over again.

Noah already served the Lord.
·    He was going further into a new world.
·    A storm had to occur.
·    Times pass in our lives when we find grace in God’s eyes, and He sets forth directions for us to follow to be where He wants us to be.
·    Hardship is always part of the plan.

Noah’s faith is stretched.
·    Any new realm God is leading you into requires more faith than what you exerted in the past.
·    Noah does not get one single bit of physical evidence to confirm the word about the flood.
·    JUST THE WORD OF GOD.
·    He built an ark by faith.

The ark had no rudder, nor helm.
·    God was guiding this ship.
·    One window is all that existed, and looking out across the waters would not have helped whatsoever.
·    But after time, MOUNTAINTOPS would be all that were visible.
·    Imagine coming into a world where your frame of reference becomes mountaintops!
·    You actually can relate to life by the mountaintops you’ve known  and experienced.
·    All else is buried.
·    But you still are not controlling the course.
·    God is.

And the Ark rests on the MOUNTAINS OF ARARAT.
·    Several and more than one.
·    Mountains of the CURSE IS REVERSED.
·    What a realm to be in!
·    The curse reversed brings REST.

Gold remembered Noah.
·    That conscious act of God’s mind caused the waters to decrease.
·    He made a wind blow.
·    The decrease of the waters was not realized until mountains were seen.

Noah was unable to see anything yet.
·    The Ark had a covering which seems to be the window.

The world is out there and he wants out.

There is an element of stepping forth and acting that is required.
·    The door is shut.
·    God closed it.
·    Noah can’t open the door.
·    What does he do?
·    The ark is sitting there.
·    Noah knows something is afoot!
·    He thinks, “If I cannot open a door I will open a window!”

He took the feeling of the ark’s resting as indication the new world was closer.

God wants to bring us to a new level, represented by this new world.

Genesis 8:6 KJV  And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
Genesis 8:7 KJV  And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

To get further signs from God the raven must be removed.
·    The fleshliness.
·    It feeds upon death and it never returned after it left the ark.
·    Then the dove of the SPIRIT was released.
·    This really marks Spirit leading.

The dove returns.
·    It found no rest.
·    Noah’s name means REST.
·    Our rest would be where the Spirit finds it for us.

He released it again and it returned with am olive leaf.
·    NOAH TOLD HIS FAMILY TO PACK THEIR BAGS!
·    Getting ready to move out!
·    THE STORM IS OVER!

“But, dad, you only have a leaf!”

“But a leaf, means a tree.  And a Tree means a Land ready to dwell upon.”

He understood that this little signal from the dove was a powerful message from the Spirit of God!

We have to become sensitive to interpret the signs God gives us.

Noah was stuck in an Aquatic Zoo, and removed the raven from the equation, and became sensitive to the Spirit by sheer virtue of hunger for God’s next level!

The storm was over.
·    It lasted a year!
·    And a world was awaiting him.

The dove was held for another seven days, and released, and it never returned again.
·    It found REST!

Genesis 8:13-19 KJV  And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.  (14)  And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.  (15)  And God spake unto Noah, saying,  (16)  Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.  (17)  Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.  (18)  And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:  (19)  Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.

Noah left!

Genesis 8:20-22 KJV  And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.  (21)  And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.  (22)  While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Genesis 9:1-2 KJV  And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.  (2)  And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

Compare with:

Genesis 1:28 KJV  And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Dominion and rulership.