Let me share a dream I dreamt a while back. I was dreaming and in this dream I was dreaming. This is what I was dreaming as I was dreaming. (Hope you all got that). This was a bit odd so I knew to pay attention. T. A. Sparks came to me and said something very simple. The next move of God is going to be a prophetic message coming forth. As I awoke from this dream, I went in the dream to tell my good friend Ron what the Lord had spoken. Then I awoke.
For me the meaning of T. A. Sparks coming to voice the message of a prophetic word is far different than our so called prophets today. For He writes about prophetic ministry and that which they speak has nothing to do with foretelling but everything to do with what’s on our Fathers own heart.
(quote)…Perhaps it would be better if we said that prophetic function, going far beyond mere events, happenings and dates, is the ministry of spiritual interpretation. That phrase will cover the whole ground of that which we are now concerned. Prophecy is spiritual interpretation. If you think about it for a moment, in light of the prophetic ministry in the Word of God. I am quite sure you will see how true this is. It is the interpretation of everything from a spiritual standpoint; bringing the spiritual implications of things past, present, and future, before the people of God, and giving them to understand the significance of things in their spiritual value and meaning. That was and is the essence of prophetic ministry…let me say that it is function, not persons, that we have in view when we are speaking about prophets, or prophetic ministry…
Recongnizing that we must come to see exactly what this function is. What is the function of prophetic ministry? It is to hold things to the full thought of God, and therefore it is usually a reactionary thing. We usually find that the prophets arose as a reaction from God to the course and drift of things amongst His people; a call back, a re-declaration, a re-pronouncment of Gods mind, a bringing into cler view again of the thoughts of God….(end quote)
All I can relate is in small measures of such a word coming forth, as to what is on His own heart. As one would look to the beginning of the Spirits thoughts and intentions of the multiplying of this seed, in Acts 4 we have the heart and soul of the people in such Spiritual unison of desire, that all they had they sold so that those who had less would be blessed. So we read;
“v:32Now the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of his possessions was his own, but instead they held everything in common.
v:33 And with great power the apostles were giving testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was on all of them.
v:34 For there was not a needy person among them, because all those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,
v:35 and laid them at the apostles' feet. This was then distributed to each person as anyone had a need. (Act 4:32-35)
"no one said that any of his possessions was his own, but instead they held everything in common.”
The living out of this message had such an impact upon these believers that they even sold all earthly possessions out of love for another. The Spirit is in-working such a love in our own hearts to give all we possess naturally and physically, emotionally unto Him. There will be nothing held back for ourselves but all yielded unto Him. This takes His grace to so in-work this intense desire to be able to produce in us such a state of being. A I was reading this the loss and selling of all means we no longer identify ourselves by these things what ever they may be. We are finding ourselves becoming identified to someone of much greater and more value than of this earthly life.
So stringent was this line of demarcation established that the Spirit would not allow Ananias to be identified with this move of the Spirit if any part was held back in self deception to claim all was given. Now those who were fully being processed by this very Spirit move of that time when Anaias came into there midst, resulted in an exposing of there hearts. This movment of the Spirit is still blowing today.
The effects of the slaying of Ananias upon the exposing of his own self deceit upon those who were seeing this was;
“Many signs and wonders were being done among the people through the hands of the apostles. By common consent they would all meet in Solomon's Colonnade.
v:13 None of the rest dared to join them, but the people praised them highly.”[/I](Acts 5:12-13)
Only those who of the same spirit would dare to join ranks with those who were following Christ for it would cost them everything even the total exposure of there state of being. As a brother wrote that we who are Gods house are showing the house to the house. Not believer to believer alone but to the house that is yet to be built.
Eze 43:10 “Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern.”
It is we who must show the “House to the House”. Do we show our co-workers this house to them. How about our wives or husbands? Our children? Were ever we go we are the house that He is building to become his habitation written and read of all men.
Peters own state of being was representative of that which he spoke, to Ananias.
Now I would dare say if we with traditional thinking would look upon Ananias being struck down to die as a punishment, I sense we have greatly erred.
What Ananias needed in order to be conformned to the inworkings of this move of the spirit, to give all of self, was this vital lesson... To die! So Jesus who holds the keys to death and hell helped to give him the exact discipline, teaching needed, not to punish Him but instruction in righteousness.
(to be continued)
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