Man has always had to struggle to get back on track with God and this struggle continues until God, through His Holy Spirit, brings about the rebirth that man needs in his heart. Rebirth comes through the anointing of the Holy Spirit. No man can save himself from the wicked claws of the enemy.When the devil gets its pangs on man, it becomes difficult to get loose. Every man born of a woman needs the saving grace of God that is given to us through Jesus Christ. In Joel 2:28, the Lord says that in that day, He will pour out his Holy Spirit upon all flesh. God knows that everybody needs Him, and that no good thing dwells in the flesh. Man can not achieve anything in the flesh, but the anointing of the Holy Spirit transforms the flesh into a vessel of honor for good use.
“That they may worship me in the wilderness:...” Exodus 7:16. Why did God choose the wilderness to be the place that the children of Israel would worship him having been in bondage all those years under the Egyptian government? What was so fanciful or spectacular about the wilderness? Was the wilderness the best place for the people who needed a break in every sense of it? One of the questions that really bother people’s minds concerning the wilderness is, why the wilderness, and why are there places like Gerar and Beersheba? The simple explanation is that God puts it there. Any Christian who is on a journey through the wilderness must know that he or she is going through spiritual puberty. It is a period of growing pains for Christians. Deuteronomy 8:16, explains that God took the children of Israel into the wilderness for the purposes of humbling them, and proving them, so that He might do them good in the end. The wilderness is a place without worldly distractions of any kind, where a person will have no other choice than to focus on God alone. It is in the wilderness that God proves people to know what exactly is in their hearts, whether they love Him for real or for the miracles He performs among them. It is in the wilderness that God will prove if people are up to the task, the next level of position, the next status that is ahead of them; whether a person can handle the blessings that He has prepared for him right around the corner. It is in the wilderness that God exposes His training manual to his chosen ones.
1 John 5:6, “This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.” Jesus came by water and by blood, and the Spirit bears witness of him. Therefore, Jesus is the embodiment of the three giant forces; Spirit, Water and the Blood. 1 John 5:8, “And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.” Here we see that these three giant forces are the forces that operate on this earth, and they agree in one. They must agree in one, else they cannot operate as one. If they operate together as one, why use them separately? Ecclesiastes 4:12, “And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a three fold cord is not easily broken.” If these three principal powers operate as one, we therefore must find ways of bringing the symbols together. The Spirit, which is the Holy Spirit, is represented by the holy or anointing oil. Water, which is the Word of God, is represented by water. The Blood, which is the life of the flesh, is represented by red drinkable liquid (for human consumption). These three separate missiles can be mixed up together to form heavenly atomic bombs, to bombard the enemy camps. There are times when it becomes necessary to fight fire with fire, and the mixture of these three giant powers will become a handy concoction that can cure any deadly disease.
David said, “I was glad when they said, let us go into the house of the Lord.” Psalm 124:1.
Churches that confess of being Holy Spirit filled program their church activities on definite time tables or schedules, run their churches with programs, and have time frames for their activities. In other words, they run the Holy Spirit, tell the Holy Spirit when to start moving and when to stop moving. As little children, we were taught to read and memorize Psalm 23, and verse 6 of that chapter ends in, “..and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever”; but when we become adults, we will begin to deviate from what we learned as little children. We begin to hurry in and out of the presence of God. We bring our personal, family and business programs into the church and expect God to listen to them first. We thereby teach our children that what we read in the Bible mean different things in real life, that we do not mean what we read in the Bible. We teach our children how to say one thing and do another thing. We teach them to disobey the Word of God.
Psalm 92:13 says that “Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God.”
Exodus 33:11, “And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again unto the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.” God took cognizance of Joshua because he “departed not out of the tabernacle.”