Revelation

About five years ago, God gave me a powerful revelation that changed my life spiritually forever. I came from a Baptist/Nazarene background and knew of, and believed in, the Trinity since before I can remember. However, at 35 years old, I could not tell you much about the Holy Spirit other than you are baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. I was hungering for knowing more when I ran into Andrew Wommack’s teaching. I was listening to a series called “The Positive Ministry Of The Holy Spirit”. While listening to the second CD, “The Comforter”.( http://www.awmi.net/extra/audio/1020 ), I had an experience where the Holy Spirit witnessed to my spirit some truths about Jesus.

It was an experience that I have had since, but not anywhere near the same in magnitude. I have not effectively been able to clearly communicate all that I experienced and felt , although I have tried many times. When I do try to explain the content of the revelation and the feeling of assurance that I received, I get reactions from people like “you didn’t know that?”, or “didn’t they teach you that in Sunday School?”. So I share one more time, more for myself so I never forget, and also so that it might be of some benefit to anyone else who hungers.

I always understood (from Sunday School) that Jesus was man and God. However, I always believed that Jesus had so many more advantages over man because of His Deity. I believed that he suffered on the cross, because it was painful, but he was God, so he knew how everything was going to turn out. He was God, so He had to know that this was going to happen and that it would only be for a short time and then He would rise in victory. How bad could it have been? I saw the temptation of Jesus in the Desert by Satan the same way. He was God, how tempted could he have really been. He was God, he just touched people and the power flowed through him and he raised the dead and healed the sick and cleansed lepers. He lived a perfect life and never sinned; yeah but He was God. He couldn’t have sinned if He wanted to. There are many others, pick a Bible story. This bad seed had worked it’s way into my understanding of who Jesus is and had diminished the sacrifice and cheapened the love He had for me.

Wommack was reading and expanding on scripture I have read and heard before when something bore witness to my spirit. Wommack started talking about how Jesus was a man, almost just like me (ok, I’ve heard it before). He was different because he was born without a sin-nature (Again, been there, understand that.). Jesus had to perceive everything through faith just as I do (wait a minute!!!, Woosh!!! A wave of revelation!). Jesus had to perceive through faith that he was the Messiah (What! He didn’t know he was the Messiah because he was ½ God? Woosh!!!). Jesus had a body, soul, and spirit just as I do. He had the Spirit of God indwelling in him at a time when the Spirit primarily only walked among people. He had the same Spirit of God inside of him, just as I do now as a born again believer. (The same spirit of God? Woosh!) He had to perceive revelation from his spirit-man into his conscience, just as I do (What, Jesus didn’t know everything? Woosh). He had to pray and believe by faith that laying down his life, as he did, was to fulfill prophesy and would be essential for the future of the Kingdom (Woosh!). He had to perceive and have faith that the spoken word of God through his lips had the power to heal, forgive sins, raise the dead, deliver from the demonic, and to fulfill messianic prophesy(Are you kidding me? I have to perceive this through faith also! Woooooosh!! )

All this hit me over and over again, as in waves the stories in the Bible all started having new meaning and clarity. I felt the love Jesus has for me and more clearly understood the sacrifice Jesus made for me. So many different parts of the scriptures were making more sense. Here I am, hungering to get a better understanding of the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit is saying ‘You want to know about me, let me introduce you to Jesus’. The Comforter will always bear witness of Jesus and bring revelation to His Word. Oh, we have such a good God in Jehovah.

If you have ever hungered to know more about the Holy Spirit, what His role is, why He is here, and why it is important to have a relationship with Him, please let me know. Bishop Jerry Pruitt has been teaching on The Holy Spirit for weeks now at Faith Builders on Wednesday night. You ought to join us one night. Also, the sermons for this series are free and available online at http://www.fbimaz-media.com/ . Another great place to get free downloads on the Holy Spirit is on Andrew Wommack’s website (http://www.awmi.net/extra/audio/1020 ) If this is really new to you, as it was to me, you might want to listen to a foundational series first called “Spirit, Soul, and Body” ( http://www.awmi.net/extra/audio/1027 )