After Salvation, this is the next most important experience. "The Eyes Of Your Understanding Being Enlightened." In fact, every other breakthrough in the kingdom of God depends on it. When one's walk with the Lord lacks the above experience, it would be tantamount to religious darkness.The kingdom of God is not a religious kingdom, but a kingdom of light. It isn't about activities, but walking in the spirit of wisdom and revelation, which births' quality in one's experience and walk with God.
The rate at which people are joining the church all over the world today is phenomenal, but what is worrying is the kind of activities and messages attracting them. More than 70% of people in most churches are there to seek for solutions instead of the knowledge of God, the source of enlightenment. Others are in church as their escape strategy from hell and for other trivialities. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing out-rightly wrong with the above, but for the simple reason that, they are side issues.
Once side issues take the place of main issues in one's walk with God, it always leads to a pseudo Christian experience. As a matter of fact, God does not owe any of us anything. He has already given to us all things pertaining to life and godliness, but we can only access them "through the knowledge of him,"and not by seeking things. It takes the enlightenment of the understanding of an individual to know God's mode-operandi.
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 2 Peter 1:3.
The formula of accessing, receiving, and sustaining all that God has already given to us before we were born as written in the above text is summarized in the phrase: "through the knowledge of him." It is "ignorance on fire" to seek the things God has for you instead of "the knowledge of him," which delivers progressively everything God has already given to us, which pertains to life and godliness.
For instance, there is so-much talk today about multiplied grace and many are crazy about receiving it, but what is the enlightened way of receiving it? Meditate on the scriptural text below:
"Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord." 2 Peter 1:2.
So, instead of hoping to drop some unneeded dollars into an offering box somewhere in the name of connecting to multiplied grace, consciously seek the knowledge of God. Don't even think of receiving it through the laying on of hands, it doesn't work that way. The knowledge of God is not received by rubbing the face of a minister with your handkerchief or buying blessed bottles of water, oil, candles, and frame photos of renowned individuals, but by learning from the master teacher, Christ, through the different avenues of learning. (Ask me what I mean).
May God have mercy on us for turning the faith which was once delivered to the saints and handed to us by past generations into a "Big Joke." When the eyes of your understanding are enlightened, you will settle down to seek the knowledge of God, instead of chasing for baseless prophecies and myths brandished as miracles. God still performs real miracles based on his word, not manipulated, worked-up and man-made ones.
Listen! God is raising the glorious church in this era, those who love darkness rather than light have no place in it. Make up your mind to stop chasing the wind and start chasing after the knowledge of God.Cheers! DrBenard Etta
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