THE FLESH PROFITS NOTHING.
The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are life."
- John 6:63
The story leading into this Word that the Lord gave me begins with a Facebook post I recently made. The Lord was giving me a corrective and profound personal Word that was very anointed, and He was planting it deep in me. Right in the middle of this, my phone that I had right next to me rang twice and almost broke the anointing. Shortly after, I thought it was such a deep and powerful revelation that I became incredibly eager to share it! So right at the end of him downloading it to me, instead of continuing my meditation on it and prayer, I came on Facebook. I came on to alerts and inbox messages, and became completely distracted. I broke the anointing entirely, just as God was burning the Word, and the power and anointing to walk it out it into me! I could feel it, and it was not a good feeling at all. I began to wonder and feel like maybe I was posting it out of my soul's own desire to satisfy my flesh in some way, instead of by the leading of His Spirit, and that is why I was having all of these emotions and inner turmoil. But I wasn't entirely sure. I asked Him, but instead of waiting on Him for a clear answer, I decided to just post it. To be honest, I had a strong feeling that is exactly what I was doing, but I thought it was just too good not to share! And what could be the harm in sharing revelation of God's Word anyway?
By the end of putting the post together, the anointing was completely gone. And I knew it. It was a total defeat. And so I had been praying and asking Him for more clarity about it for the rest of the evening and the entire following day. It was frustrating that because of this post, I couldn't even get back into the Spirit the following morning, and I knew that was the reason. After learning to walk and grow in the Spirit for many years, I realized that I came very close to aborting the revelation he was giving me and it's power to produce the change in my life and heart that it was intended to. I also realized that even though it was good, His anointing was not released with it. And without the anointing it is completely pointless and ineffective.
No anointing= No power.
So I repented and said, "I am so sorry Father! Do you want me to take it down?" I waited for hours for an answer. Many uncomfortable and restless hours. I was chastised by Him for more than half of the following day because He wouldn't let me get in His Spirit enough to be calm and at peace. It was totally a time-out! Finally, after I prayed in repentance again and asked Him to speak to me and teach me about all that was going on in my soul, He began to speak to me and give me some wonderful revelation. This is what He said:
"If you want the world, I will give you the world. If you want My Spirit, I will give you My Spirit. You cannot have both. The choice is yours...
Beloved, I have called you to a life of consecration to Me. The more doors you choose to open in your life, the greater the distractions will be, the more spirits will have access to you and to your soul, and the more demand will be on you to steal you away from Me. You must use discretion- always. Many things may seem good, but not everything is profitable. And I want you to profit in everything! Your time with Me, your intimacy with Me, your connection with Me, and your Oneness with Me is more important than anything or anyone, and is the greatest treasure and life you could ever have. It is the pearl of great price. Your commitment to living a consecrated life to Me is the most profitable investment you could ever make. It will produce the life of my Son in you in great measures, and grow in you a sharp sensitivity and keen discernment to the leading of my Spirit. It will allow you to be led by My voice every single moment, every single step. The sacrifice is great, the work is hard, but the results are worth it.
Everything has a cause and effect. Everything you sow you will reap. Anything and everything that is done by your soul to satisfy your flesh in any way will produce impure soulful results and increase impurity in your soul and in your life. This will cause much confusion, resulting in many actions by your flesh, because your soul is more easily swayed to go the way it is used to going for most of your life- to your flesh and to the world. And yes, this is sin. Sin is "missing the mark." If you steer off my path out of your own will, you have missed the path that I have marked out for you, and that path is in My Spirit. On the other hand, anything and everything that is done by and led by My Spirit will produce and increase My Spirit and the fruit of My Spirit in your life, and where My Spirit lives and reigns there is freedom. Freedom from your flesh and sinful nature. Freedom from the control and influence of others. Freedom from your emotions and your soul demanding to be fed, demanding to be satisfied, and demanding to have it's own way.
Your soul is in the balance. Your soul is your mind, will, and emotions. Your soul is your heart. Your soul is where you choose what and whom you will worship. Your soul has the choice, by the free will I have given you, to choose to go one of two ways. It can worship and bow to your flesh and it's desires and sin, or it can choose to worship and submit to my Spirit. Again, the choice is yours. But the double-minded man who, out of his own will and soul, chooses to go back and forth from Spirit to flesh is unstable in all His ways. He will receive nothing from Me, because everything for life and godliness is in My Spirit, where you must be to receive. Whom My Son has set free is free indeed, but only where My Spirit is, is there freedom. You must choose to rule over your soul, to govern it, to bring it into submission to My Spirit, and to reside and abide in the freedom that is there.
It is only by My Spirit and My anointing that you will truly be effective. Remember, in the end, anything not done by My Spirit will be burned up, no matter how good, loving, and pure-intentional it may have been. Make it your priority to remain in Me and in My Spirit. It is here that your destiny lies, and here that it shall be fulfilled.
I chose you because you have what it takes. Because with My love and power, and your love and devotion, NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE."
"' I have the right to do anything," you say- but not everything is beneficial (profitable)."
- 1 Corinthians 6:12
"The Kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it."
- Matthew 13:47
"Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."
- 2 Corinthians 3:17
"For in Him we live and move and have our being."
- Acts 17:28
"His divine power has given us everthing we need for life and godliness."
- 2 Peter 1:3
"So if the Son sets you free, you are free indeed."
- James 8:36
"You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh...Walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with eachother, so that you are not to do whatever you want..."
- Galatians 5:13-17
"Do not be deceived, God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap."
- Galatians 6:7
"I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me (in the Spirit) and I in you, you will bear much fruit (the fruit of the Spirit that will grow in your soul); apart from me (in your own soul and flesh) you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me (in the Spirit), you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire (the purifying fire of God) and burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you (because you will be asking by the Spirit in accordance to God's perfect will and not by your soul and your own self-will, and you will be in correct alignment to receive it). This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples."
- John 15:5-8
"See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to Him, and to keep His commands...then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land (of the Kingdom of God- the Holy Spirit) you are entering to possess. But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods (self, money, sex, religion, world, etc.) and worship them, I declare to you this day that you will most certainly be destroyed (your soul will be full of curses, demonic spirits, roots, soul ties, unforgiveness, etc.). You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess (The Spirit- the anointing. You will not be able to handle it, contain it, or walk in the anointing because it will be a consuming fire that will burn up everything in you that is not of God. Hence why "blessed are the PURE in heart (soul) for they shall see God.")...
This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to His voice, and hold fast to Him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers...(the Kingdom of God- the Holy Spirit).
- Deuteronomy 30:15-20
"Now what I am commanding you today is not beyond too difficult for you or beyond your reach. It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, 'Who will ascend to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey?' Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, 'Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?' No, the Word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart (soul) so you may obey it (You just have to choose to do so)."
- Deuteronomy 30:11-14
"Those who live according to the flesh have their minds (souls) set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance to the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind (soul) governed by the flesh is death, but the mind (soul) governed by the Spirit is life and peace. The mind (soul) governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God."
- Romans 8:5-8
"Choose this day whom you will serve."
- Joshua 24:15
