Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
www.egfm.org
Programme: Lekki Soul Center
Date: Wednesday, 30th June 2021
Ministering: Reverend Kayode Oyegoke
Tongues and interpretation (1)
“I'm here to bring you heaven, I'm here to bring you up to God. I am sent from Jesus, I am sent from God to bring you up to God. I have come to bring you to Jesus. I am sent from God, I have come from God. Heaven, Heaven, Heavens"
Tongues and interpretation (2)
"Mike, Mike, Micheal, Micheal, My key, Michael, My key, Michael. Micheal brought key for door, brought key for door, I brought key that the door might open, I brought skill for the door. I am here with key. Key for the door. I brought key to pass through the door, to go through the door. I am here with key. I have come to bring you key. I am here to bring you key, I brought that key. See key for door. Take the key for door, home door, take the key for the door. God's door."
Tongues and interpretation (3)
"A bird is here, a mighty bird is here, even in your meeting, bringing blessing, bringing blessing, he came with me with blessing, he came with me with blessing. Even blessing that are answers to petitions raised, even petitions in the hearts of many in different parts of the globe who want understanding, who desire to break into the things of God at this time. He is come with blessing, he is here with blessing, he is here with blessing. He is a bird of glory, he is a bird from glory. Mighty bird, he came with me, he came here with me, he is here, he's come from God to give you blessing."
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This interpretation is true. The scripture speaks of an angel flying in heaven.
Revelation 8:13 (KJV)
"And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabitants of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound."
Revelation 8:13 (AMP)
"Then I [looked and I] saw a solitary eagle flying in midheaven, and as it flew I heard it crying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, because of the rest of the trumpet blasts which the three angels are about to sound.'
The angel that appeared to Rev. Kenneth Hagin in the camp meeting was a bird. Hagin described it as having feathers all over its body. That was a very high angel. When God is around, scriptures open.
Tongues and Interpretation (4)
"It's the time, it's the time. It is the time to eat things of the height, even things that last. It's time to minister to you things everlasting. It's time, it's time. You are in those times that you have seen, saith the Lord. It is time to take everlasting journey. It's time to go through everlasting sojourning out of that which man's legs can walk, into that which only the energy of the spirit, even the energy of the bird dimension of God can walk. Therefore I say unto you, "Eat for the journey is great; eat for the journey is everlasting; eat for the destination is calling for you to come."
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The prophetic should not be raised above doctrine. A pilgrim is one who follows the path of doctrine and sees it to the end. Doctrinal path is the chart of a pilgrim. Looking for doctrine makes you somebody who journeys in the way. The New Testament doctrine is built on the way of life. Doctrine is life. One who is interested in life will not cast aspersion to doctrine.
The angel today is an angel of doctrine. Angels are first angels of doctrine before they are angels of works. God built angels with the capacity to handle doctrine and endowed them with power for works and manifestation of their doctrine. Their powers are witnesses to their frame within. Their frame within is doctrinal. Angels are doctrine raised and are aligned in the order of God's doctrine. All the strata of angels are strata of doctrine, from the least of the doctrine to the highest.
Hebrews 6:1
"Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God."
The doctrine of Christ is in Christ; it is made up of what God used to build up Christ. Perfection is a higher doctrine we come into, having left the doctrine of Christ. Doctrines are bodies of knowledge. If doctrine is an oracle, then it has to be known. What you know is what you learn.
Angels are disciplined by their making. They don't break order because it is alien to what God put in them. God made them to know things. An angel is a body of doctrine. Any believer who is not interested in doctrine is not interested in the order that is in the realm of the spirit. Thus, such will not be spiritual but unlearned in the realm of the spirit. Someone who leaves the doctrine of God ordained in scripture is because of an anti doctrine spirit warring against him
1 Timothy 4:1
"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils."
Seducing spirits are not ignorant of doctrine; they know faith. Men who are seducers connive with spirits that seduce. There are angels who serve the doctrine of Christ, which is made up of faith, hope and charity; there are angels in the spirit who are made up of faith, hope and charity. Seduction really begins from the doctrine of Christ. No one can seduce except he is learned. For someone to seduce you out of faith, he must also understand the mystery of faith.
The works of Satan cannot be untied except by the mystery of Christ. The doctrine of Christ, the Father and God are all mysterious. We receive help from angels because they want to ensure we don't fail in the place of doctrine. God's law is God's doctrine. Doctrine is our life: it is also the life of angels. It is expedient we align with doctrine.
Psalm 82:1-2
"God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods. [2] How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah."
Judgment that cannot detect a wicked person is low and it is void of life. One must possess enough life to see and understand the wicked.
Psalm 82:2-3
"How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. [3] Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy."
It will take the duty of those who have arisen to be taught by God; these are those who have come to judgment. For one to judge with equity the meek of the earth (Isaiah 11:4), such must have ascended up to God by judgment. The congregation of the mighty is the congregation of the righteous. This congregation is what David referred to as the godly congregation which sinners cannot stand in.
Psalm 1:4-5
"The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. [5] Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous."
A man cannot be said to be ungodly, except he has been tried and proved to be so. The essence of Christianity is to determine the eternity of men. God's agenda for gathering men together in church for feeding is with an end to prove them. 'Judgment shall begin in the house of God' does not imply that God wants to judge the fornicators but that God would teach men how to judge. It is a season of God standing in the congregation of the mighty. Sight has been given. We are bound by the covenant of seeing. When you see a thing in the realm of the spirit, you have already signed a treaty, and some things are at work. When you have seen these things, they are already yours.
Tongues and Interpretation (5)
"So many many sins, even came into the world, even passed from fallen angels to men, even by what they shew men, even by what men saw as a result of the transaction between men and fallen angels; even things that were made visible by the souls of men; imputed sin, and made men carried inheritance as natures, even dark fallen natures, even from angels. For ye, as your eyes see Me, as your eyes picture Me; ye, as you see Me, even by the scripture, even by the Spirit of revelation, even by the enlightening of the eyes of your understanding, you come into covenant with me. You come into the beginning of inheritance with me; you come even into a change of state, change of realms, change of persons, even by what you see. Therefore, I say behold and see and begin to come into a change of person; change of realm, change of estate, and come into Me, and come into what I show by My Spirit per time. See and live."
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The ungodly are not so because they are weightless, like the chaff that will be carried away by the wind. The word 'stand' connotes a person who can bear what has been delivered in that arena of judgment. Paul said he wanted to teach the Corinthians spiritual things but that they could not bear them. So also, the ungodly cannot stand in judgment because the strength of judgment is vehement. It means one must be like a tree planted by the rivers of water; else, the wind will uproot the person and take him away.
Judgment is a very high activity of life. In the school of the Spirit, the realm of judgment is a realm of a higher life than that of Christ. Judgment refers to the things of God. The Hebrew translation of 'Elohim' bears the phrase 'the judge'. So it's a characteristic of God. God gives judgment. He trains with judgment. When interfacing with God, He wants to raise your thinking. A real encounter with God is not to just sight Him and nothing happens; the real encounter with God is that He passes His understanding to you. Understanding Him is via judgment. That is why God is looking for those whom He will judge. To judge you is to raise you, and those who are qualified are those who are empty. You must be empty to be blessed by God.
Psalm 82:1-3
"God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods. [2] How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. [3] Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy."
There are two dimensions that a man must fall into before he can attain judgment -- poor and needy. Poverty in the spirit is the first point of call for God to respond to a person with judgment.
Psalm 72:1
"Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son."
The king here is not referring to someone who is sitting on an earthly throne. The king is the poor and needy. You must have refused the adversary from enriching you. This is because the actual gift of Satan is judgment and counsel. What God fights is not money or houses. Satan uses those to equip people. God is against inward values given by Satan.
Psalm 1:1
"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful."
Counsel is expensive. A person may be physically rich but does not have counsel. Counsel is an answer to your ignorance, your crippled state. When someone does not know what to do next, the person needs counsel, and it's by inspiration. There are people who have counsel concerning how to live on earth; God the Father cannot counsel them unless they are willing to relinquish their goods. God is a Spirit and is sensitive to the invisible things a person does not see. That is why you cannot tell a man from the outward. A man may have nothing but may be full of riches. It is counsel that has made some people arrive at a wrong judgment of a lifestyle.
God cannot bring His riches to someone who knows what to do without His counsel. So a person has to first be empty before God can respond to him. You must first be poor, then go on to be needy, before judgment can come. I call the needy second-grade poverty; it is higher than the poor. Somebody can be poor and yet has not come to a place of need.
Psalm 72:2-4
"He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment. [3] The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness. [4] He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor."
Salvation belongs to the needy; it is a pearl of a great price. There are two types of pearls in the scripture.
Matthew 13:44-46
"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. [45] Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: [46] Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it."
The man got all the goodly pearls with the one pearl of a great price. That tells us that the measure with which we desire is what will be given to us. Some people just want to stay with Christ, while some hearts are still panting after learning so much.
Psalm 72:12-13
"For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper. [13] He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy."
Isaiah 61:1
"The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound…"
Isaiah chapter 61 is the answer to the poor. The meek here are those Jesus called the poor (Luke 4:18). The meek are different from the humble. One can be humble and not be meek. The meek is he who can change his idea. The humble can agree with you but may not go with you. The meek will God guide in judgment (Psa. 25:9). To be humble is a very good place to start with, though it's not enough. A meek man can easily be entreated. It's possible someone is humble but is too wise for himself. The meek trusts easily, more than the humble. It is good to have both. To respond to lessons that you know not about is meekness. An attitude of meekness is an attitude of faith and love. The meek is he who will be beautified with salvation (Psa. 149:4).
Meek people are poor people. The psalmist tells us that God does not respond to someone who does not need Him.
Luke 4:18
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised…"
God will not respond to anyone with His things except they are poor. The first response is to the poor and then the needy.
Psalm 82:1-2
"God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods. [2] How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah."
The gods are the poor and the needy. The wicked is full and has no need. We need each other.
Tongues and Interpretation (6)
"Know, know, know. Come know. Come know things. Come know things that will bring you even into initiations, initiations of participations, even participations of things that are hanging over you. For there are things hanging over you. There are things that you should know. There are things that you should take out of this meeting, even knowing things that the adversary would have you not knowing; but I say know them. Take things of me today. Take things that I am offering you. Take them. Know things. Break through and know them; for they are things that you need to take, even blessings that are hanging over you, that should follow you even as gifts. Know them, know them. Saith the Spirit of God."
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Psalm 82:3
"Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy."
The needy is the fatherless; he who needs a father; he who is in dear need of the Father. Anyone who does not have a need and is sufficient for himself is portraying iniquity. Ungodliness is next to it.
Tongues and Interpretation (7)
"Fight, fight, fight. For he doesn't want you to see this, but I have given you even to see this, even to take this today, in this meeting. Therefore, I say follow My Spirit. Follow even the mannerisms of My Spirit. Wait on Me, for Me to push out blessing, even to give you that which Jesus would have you take, even in this meeting. Therefore I say fight to take. Fight to hear. Fight even to receive that which is hung over you and which should fall into you.
The ungodly is the man of the power of Satan. He is powerful than a magician, stronger than an occult master. He is a man who has built himself with the nature of spirits. He does not need to go to the village and sacrifice to an idol to get money. He knows what to do because he has a counsel. He depends on himself. These are his sins; and if they are not purged, there is no room for inheritance.
The real New Testament is a meek lesson. It is a lowly book. It is not in the proud affirmation of one saying "I can do all things" or saying to a mountain "be thou removed". When you are coming nearer to the New Testament, God breaks you until you can seek for your daily bread. You will not trust in your strength. What God redeemed Israel from, when He took them to the wilderness, is dependence on themselves. He made sure He was the breadwinner and not the fathers. He wanted Israel, both father and children, to know He was the only Father.
Some ministers say they don't want offering when they preach because they feel offering is an eyesore. They have a pride -- they don't need people's offering. If a man is like this, he will never be humble because God wants him to take from people. If Jesus can take an offering, a pastor should take offering. Its true that as a pastor, you should not depend on anybody but God. But scripture also says "If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, [16] And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?" (Jam. 2:15-16). It shows that a brother should lean on another brother. Even though we should all work, we know that when the blessing comes, it is not our strength. It is God who giveth power to get wealth.
So, one has to be careful. When God gives a man an opportunity to bless a preacher, he should know that he is not the one blessing really but the preacher, because the preacher has been humble. God brought Pastors down, humiliated them, made them humble, for men to be blessed. This is so a man can be pure in heart to receive meat from heaven. They will become needy so they can give man meat in due season. It is not that God cannot do wonders.
Tongues and Interpretation (8)
"Mouth, My mouth. My mouth can only face even the direction of one who is meek, even the direction of one who is poor. For I only open My mouth to declare even things of My judgment to he who is meek, to he who is poor, he who in his heart, he who within him even that contriteness, even that meekness, even that poverty has been worked in. For except a man is meek and poor in heart, he cannot hear the very words of My mouth, even the very judgment that proceeds from My mouth. Therefore I bring dealings. Therefore I bring mournings, even mournings by the workings of My spirit, mournings even to work on the heart, even to remove the excitement of the flesh, to remove the excitement of sin, to reduce even the dosage of the work of the adversary, even on the heart of everyone who will hear the words of My mouth, who will hear My word, who will hear My word, who will hear My word. For it's a prerequisite that a heart must be poor, that a heart must be meek even to hear My own word, even My judgment"
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As a minister of the gospel, I should not be proud that I do not depend on anybody/look up to anyone. I have been trained through the years not to do that. This is not because I learnt it from home; it was a spiritual training. I don't have it as a family pride to be independent, but some people do. At times God will bring you to a place where you will need to ask your sister to break you because your formation is iniquity.
While the tongues were on, things were going on in my heart. And the things that were going on was the situation of people. I saw that some people have challenges presently while some have money flowing in their hands anyhow. The latter comes into the state of "Why is there God?" Meanwhile, when the former at times shed tears, people think he is doing so because of the Holy Ghost, but it's not. It is coming from a broken heart; the man is pained, wondering if he is really the one that is now without money. But God wants you to discern the state of "blessed are you". When you do not have physically, and you are unable to meet needs at certain times, blessed are you. Blessed are you when you have, when you are in and when you are out. Natural lack should not define you. You should not also cringe because of it. If this lesson is not learnt, a man will stay here for a long time. I am not saying you should love lack, but a man should have wisdom of handling the economy of the spirit.
An ungodly man is the opposite of a godly man. He has received enough training to depend upon his counsel. "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly…" (Psa. 1:1). The counsel of the ungodly is a very strong thing. The first ungodly man was Cain who did not need God. Cain was not needy. Abel was more of a needy one; this is what a soul should look like. Those who are needy are those who are fatherless. But those who don't have need of a Father are a father to themselves. The training of iniquity and sin is for a man to depend on himself. The training of the west (Europe America) is self-dependence, a training of self-governance. Spirits taught them.
Like Christ is life unto salvation, the ungodly is the life of the father of lies. It is a state. This self-dependence will be pushed higher. The whole nation (arrangements that we see) is a church. Schools are churches. If we are not careful in Nigeria, our nation too can be hijacked. You cannot change the nation with self-dependence, but God can spare you in this nation if you are there. The answer is to have the form of doctrine. You can learn their education, sow in the land, build in the land, and yet not be polluted with the things that are in the land. Jesus said to the Father, "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth." (Jn. 17:17). "I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil." (Jn. 17:15). God wants us to use His life to defeat the system.
There is an evil God wants us to be protected from. I see that people are not being insulated. They are not being protected. The doctrine that is coming up in the church is not really strong enough to protect the people. The doctrine of Christ is the answer. If you don't need God, you will need Satan. This doctrine is the sealing. You need to be godly to escape the power of darkness. When you escape, you will be qualified to be saved. Because the person God will save is not just the poor but the needy.
"For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities..." (Heb. 4:15). The High Priest was raised to do more than just giving us the life of Christ, but to save us. He was raised not to just give us power unto salvation. The High Priest does not need to appear for me to have the power of God that will get me to salvation; it is just by knowing the doctrine of Christ that the High Priest has, which is His life (Rom 8:1). All the Hebrew churches were needy, this is another level. A man journeys from being poor to being needy. If you do not have need, the High Priest will not come.
Hebrews 4:15-16
"For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. [16] Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need."
The time of need is the time we cry for a Father. The time a man is now ready to have a Father. The issue of Fatherhood is different from the introduction of prayer Jesus told us to pray to the Father (Matt. 6:9). It is true God is our Father but this dimension of Fatherhood is an appearance to a man - an appearance to an individual through the ministry of the High Priesthood of Jesus to act as his Father.
The Italian word for High Priest is papao. "Father" is the actual word. The Priestly ministry is a Fatherhood ministry. When a Priest has arisen, God has raised a Father, especially the ministry of an High Priest. When a High Priest is showing His face, a Father has come to train us.
Colossians 2:2
"That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ…"
The mediator between God and Christ is the Father. To come into the mystery of Christ is to be a man of the New Testament. That is the new man. When you have this mystery, you have become a man that is in need of a Father. Arrival at becoming Christ is to be poor, then you go on to be needy. The Hebrew church arrived at the point of need; then God had to appoint a High Priest for the needy. This need is not for money. A lot of people do not see salvation as a need.
Hebrews 2:1-3
"Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. [2] For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; [3] How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation…"
To need salvation, you must be poor. You must have been blessed with the provisions of God for the poor. After you have learnt Christ, you will now know you need something. The question for the need of a Father will arise. Jesus never came out into ministry Fatherless. He and His Father were working together. If you are not poor and needy, the Father does not come. He has His things He gives, and if you are not in need of it, He's not your Dad yet. He's a Daddy of everybody, a nice being; but to call Him your Dad in this context, He must have given you what He gives to those He calls His Sons (Jn. 5:20,22). The food of the needy is judgment. Jesus grew to a place and realized He had a need. Between age twelve and thirty, He began to yearn and cry and mourn. He was mourning for everlasting life, because what will satisfy the hungry is God's bread. It is the answer to the need of the soul. A needy soul is different from a poor soul. Both of them are poor, but the needy is a higher grade of being poor in the spirit. They are the ones who can ask.
"If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore." (Psalm 132:12). The children here are the children of David. They are Zionists. To be a Davidic boy, you must have arrived at Zion by journey. Zion men are a set of poverty company of people who are looking for God. They start by being poor. They arrive at Zion and company up as the mountain. The mountain (company) is made up of the children of Zion, not just every Christian. Every Christian is still in his church. Children of Zion are those who have left and journeyed; no matter the churches where they are, they congregate at the point where God can be found.
As they journey, they change from flesh to stone. They move from reed to a rock. As they are moving, their nomenclature is changing. Their DNA is being changed. They are going against the world. They are disobeying the world. They are not being satisfied with what the world offers, and therefore, they are undergoing a metamorphosis in their soul from being grasses. They become stone through the journey of years. Then at different points, they gather. This is what Zion is all about. The day a man is born again, he is not yet a Zionist; he is a baby. A man can be told by the stuff he is made up of - a rock or a grass; because the person who built Zion in the old testament was David. He built a city called Zion and brought the ark of the covenant into the city.
When Zion was existing, Shiloh shut down. Activities in Shiloh shut down. Shiloh is the first place of the church; everybody gathers here. When David came, the day God removed the ark from Shiloh, all the feasts they do three times a year was no longer possible; especially the feast of the great day of the atonement, where the priest will need the ark to put blood on the eastern part of the Mercy seat. It was no longer possible, and Israel lived years without an ark. They lived without every year atonement. How did they survive? First of all, when the ark departed, God raised a prophet called Samuel instead of the ark whose words never fell to the ground. And before Samuel died, he made sure he raised David, who became a covering to Israel, a man after God's heart. When Saul was there, he never remembered the ark at all. He did not want it; he just wanted his father’s government and his own son (Jonathan) to succeed him after he finishes. He wanted to make the whole Israel his inheritance. He knows if he keeps the ark away, the priests would not have a reason to say God has spoken. He did not have regard for the priests; he killed them all because they kept David.
David ate of the bread that a priest eats, which is unlawful for a commoner; and God spared his life because he was the shepherd of Israel. A true shepherd will restore the ark back to church. What is missing in the body of Christ is the ark of God. It is far from the body of Christ. The day Ark is restored, order will be restored in the churches. So, a Davidic generation is what God is looking for. The children of David are not Israelites but those who have obeyed the doctrine in the New Testament format. They are men who will live out of this world; who will not love the world neither the things that are in the world -- lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and the pride of life. This means they are the company of the afflicted. “Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions.” (Psa. 132:1). Anyone who is not willing to go through suffering is not a child of David. He still wants to be worldly. He does not want to be led by the Spirit. He still wants to retain his formation. He is not going to journey; he will remain in the world.
Tongues and Interpretation (9)
"I’m showing you, I’m showing you; I'm showing you even things from God's perspective, I'm showing you even things from the judgments of God. For I'm pouring even things of God's judgment. I'm secreting judgments even from the judgment of God. I'm showing you things of God's sight. I'm showing you things even of God's eyes. I'm blessing you even with God's sight, even with God's eyes that you might come even into the discernment that are God's. Even discernment that will bring you even into the realm of judgment, even into the place of judgment, even into the habitation of God. See judgment, come hold judgment, inherit God's eyes. Come inherit God's eyes, come inherit God's eyes that you might take the judgment even into the world of judgment, even the world of God."
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The poor are called so because they have refused the world; they have refused to be satisfied with what Satan offers through the world. They are empty of the world and are afflicted. They passed through training and constitute Zion. Though they are being afflicted, though they are poor but something has happened to them- they have changed formation. They have put off the garment of vanity and lightness and have become stronger, thicker, and solid so that they are a stone in Zion. Then God told David, “If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.” (Psa. 132:12). This is why the New Testament cannot be taught to carnal Christians. It cannot be taught to a church that needs milk; they will need to journey for some time before the testimony is brought.
"And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him." (Isa. 8:17). God hid His face from the house of Jacob because they could not take it; they were babies. But the face is given to some who will learn His testimony. So these children will keep His testimony and by the time they do ".... their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore." (Psa. 132:12). All Zion are children. In Zion, not everyone has the same capacity in keeping testament. Among them that keep the testimony, some will finish first. Those who will finish first will be reaped out of Zion. They will become the children of Zion by reason of keeping testimony.
"...for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children." (Isa. 66:8). There cannot be a travail in Zion without teaching. Keep teaching Zion. When you are teaching Zion, you are causing her to travail. Testimony is what you teach Zion; and the testimony is called the living testimony. The testimony is the bread, the living bread.
"For the Lord hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation. [14] This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it." (Psa. 132:13-14). Here, He was not talking about the physical Jerusalem. The physical Jerusalem are not even around this activity at all; they are busy doing their own thing. Yet some Christians go there to partake of their water because Jesus walked there. But taking the water does not do anything. This effort is only carnal.
"I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread." (Psa. 132:15). These poor people are the ones that when they arrive at Zion, will become poor again. Before you come to Zion you must be poor; and after some arrive there, they decide to be poor again. Not everyone in Zion will be needy, but it does not mean they will not eventually. Because as long as they remain in Zion, hunger/famishing will be triggered gradually and gradually. It is not everybody they can be hungry at the same time.
Do not play dieting in the realm of the spirit; eat when people are eating. In Zion, there is no dieting; fat is allowed. Do not shed your fat in Zion because you need it against the devil. “The liberal soul shall be made fat…” (Pro. 11: 25). They need fat souls.
The bread referred to in Psalm 132:15 is everlasting life. It is the living bread. It is the bread for the needy. Everlasting life does not come except people are hungry for it.
Everlasting life is the living bread; without the living bread, there cannot be everlasting life. Everlasting life is being served for one purpose- to heal a man of his need. When the living bread is given, something is expected. A fruit is expected. "...and thine expectation shall not be cut off." (Pro. 23:18). The expectation is to make migration- obedience; produce the fruit of the life. Everlasting life will appear gradually. It has His dimensions. It is a real life. If you have it, no man can take it from you. As long as it is yours, it is your inheritance. Everlasting life will bring the Father closer to you. When you have the living bread, it is your ticket to the Father. You need Him.
The cross severed Jesus from the Father. The Lord is very close to the poor and the lowly. A man's real need is the Father. He is what man’s soul needs. The need of every man is the Father. What all men are looking for is in the bread. The bread will explain it to them. The bread draws the Father close to a man. The Father moves and go to where His bread is. You cannot separate God and His bread. Anywhere His bread is, He knows it. Where the deposit of His bread is, He knows it and will look for them.
They will not give everlasting life to anyone They are not sure of. This means the life everlasting is not an ordinary life. Teaching is the first method of life everlasting, the next is doing. Jesus ate this bread until He died; so, we will keep eating it, keep doing it and keep obeying it, as He said "...My meat is to do the will of him that sent me..." (Jn. 4:34). Jesus also said "...as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you." (Jn. 20:21). So we are being sent to bear Him fruit so that the fruit may remain.
God is giving everlasting life because He is coming. The Father will come to us. Coming to us is to Father us. To Father us is to meet our need. He starts meeting this need by the food He gives you; then the need is fulfilled by His person being present to us.
God who is doing this has been hiding Himself. He sent Jesus while He was watching from afar. Jesus said to the disciples when Philip asked Him to show them the Father "...he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? [10] Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. [11] Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake." (Jn. 14:9-11). The Father does not just come; Jesus has to convince Him to come. There is something about our Father; He satisfies need. The need is in the soul; and the need is Him.
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