SEEING IN THE SPIRIT

BY

PHILLIP RICH

EKKLISIA PROPHETIC APOSTOLIC MINISTRIES, INC.

PUBLISHED BY EKKLISIA MINISTRIES, INC.

Copyright 2005 A. D.

All rights reserved under International Copyright law. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in whole or in part, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior express consent of the publisher. All scripture is the Kings James Version unless otherwise stated. All rights reserved.

Take note that the name satan is not capitalized. We choose not to acknowledge him, even to the point of violating grammatical rules.

Table of Contents

PRO-VISION

SEEING IS BEING

GET IN THE SPIRIT

20x20 VISION

ENLIGHTENED EYES

PRO-VISION

The Lord has been speaking about seeing the unseen, about coming to the place where our spiritual eyesight is acute and we can see things as God sees them, about coming to the place where we can see things from heaven’s perspective and what happens when we do. In this teaching, we will look at how to do this and what happens when we do. Anytime you see from God’s vantage point it is a positive vision and we like to call it “pro-vision.” Positive vision is pro. Pro is for something. God is for us, not against us. If we have His vision then we have pro-vision. We need to start seeing what God sees. If you see it, you possess it. If you see it, it is yours and you can enter it.

We are going to be looking at seeing through God’s eyes, seeing with the eyes of the spirit and not considering the natural eyesight, not considering what we see in the natural as being truth.

So, there is a difference between fact and truth. What we see in the natural may be factual, but it is not truth. The fact might be that we are facing a problem. The truth is that God is the solution. Fact can be changed. Truth is constant and forever.

John 17:17;  “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.”

People may be sick one day and well the next. Their sickness is a fact, but it is not the truth because it changes. The fact may be that you are not feeling well now, but the truth is that by His stripes you are healed. The fact may be that at the moment you are broke and disgusted but the truth is that my God shall supply. You might be under an attack of the enemy but the truth is He sets you free. He gives you authority and power over all devils.

2 Corinthians 4:18;  “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal [changeable]; but the things which are not seen are eternal [cannot be changed].”

One is factual but the other is the truth. What you see in the natural may be the momentary fact, but the truth is what is seen in the spirit. The truth will always change the facts. The truth has power over the facts. The facts cannot change the truth.

We are going to share some truths and some revelations of God that will help you start seeing with spiritual eyes, start seeing the unseen. As soon as you see the unseen you have faith in what you see. You have faith to possess what you perceive. There is something about seeing it in the spirit that gives you title deed to it. God never allows you to see anything unless He intends for you to have it all. He will never show you anything unless it is your inheritance. That means it has your name on it or you wouldn’t see it.

In Matthew 16 one of the disciples spoke up and told Jesus, “You are the Christ the son of the living God.” Jesus answered, “Flesh and blood has not revealed that to you but my Father which is in heaven. Upon this rock (of revelation) I will build my church. The gates of hell cannot prevail against the revelation. I will give you the keys to the kingdom.”[1] That meant He would give keys of revelation to kingdom power, kingdom principles. Keys that would unlock a door so we could go in and possess those things that would be entered into through revelation.

Let’s look at the life of Abraham. God had to help him get pro-vision.

Genesis 15:1;  “After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.”

“Vision,” the Hebrew word mahk-az-eh, means to perceive, to gaze upon, behold, to enter prophecy. Vision is prophetic. Seeing into the realm of the spirit is prophetic. Prophets used to be called seers. Many times I will see something and then have to speak into it, describe it.

Abraham had a vision, a perception. He beheld something, gazed upon something that was not in the natural realm. He saw something invisible, something that could not be seen with the natural eye.

1 Corinthians 15:44;  “It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.”

This scripture reveals that there is the natural and also the supernatural. You have natural eyes and you have spiritual eyes. You have five spiritual senses for your spirit man to operate in the realm of the spirit the same way you have five natural senses for your natural man to operate in the natural. We have to begin to develop these spiritual senses.[2]

In Hebrews 5, we learn that we have to eat the meat of the Word, which is revelation. We have to consume revelation and then our senses have to be exercised. We have to start seeing, focusing. Then we will be able to discern both good and evil, what is God and what isn’t. We can’t do it with the milk of the Word.

Genesis 15:1;  “After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.”

Not only did Abram see the Lord in a vision, but with the vision came instruction. God had to deal with Abram because even with this vision he was still trying to see in the natural and take as truth that which was only fact. The truth was that he was about to become the father of many nations. The fact was he didn’t have a child yet. He was trying to operate in the realm of fact, thinking it was the truth.

Too many Christians are doing that today. They are operating in the fact of the problem they are facing thinking that is the truth. It is not the truth. You have to deny your problem and say, “You are not the truth. I deny you. I deny you the right to exist in my life. The only thing that will exist in my life is the truth of God’s Word.” Quit thinking that your problem is the truth, because if you do then you will accept it and it will be your lot in life.

Genesis 15:2;  “And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?”

He was looking in the natural and thinking that was the truth.

“I know, Lord, you said in your Word that by your stripes I am healed but when is it going to happen. I am still feeling pain.” It is a fact to feel pain. But the truth is that by His stripes we are healed. The truth in Isaiah 53 is that He bore our sicknesses and carried our pain. “Carry” means to hook on to your pain like with a cable and pull it out of your body.

My mother was experiencing fibromyalgia and in constant pain day and night. There is really no cure for it. I was talking to her one day and she asked for prayer. I started praying for her and got into the Spirit. I could see God hooking a cable to her pain and pulling it out of her body. I knew what Isaiah 53 said and I began to pray that. I told her, “By what Jesus did in Isaiah 53, the Lord is hooking a cable to your pain and pulling it out of your body in Jesus’ Name.” In a little bit she told me it was leaving. She felt it being pulled out of her body. It all left. It was the first time in years that she had been pain free. She told me that later it tried to come back. She did the same thing I did and it left. She had remembered the prayer.

Words produce sight. Envision a big juicy yellow lemon. It is fresh and bright. I have a knife and cutting board. I am slicing into it. When I cut it, juice goes everywhere. I hold up half of it and squeeze it into my mouth. Could you taste and see it? You did not physically, in the natural, eat a lemon, but, your mouth was watering and you may have even tasted it. Words produce pictures, eyesight, seeing.

The Word of God will produce spiritual eyesight and it will literally affect your whole life. Even your natural body will respond to it.

God knows what we are going through. He understands what we are facing. But He doesn’t want us to look at the natural. He wants us to see things through His eyes because that is the way it really is in the Spirit.

No matter what tragedy comes your way, on the other side of the veil in the realm of the Spirit God is playing out a solution to it. He always does that. It is like a movie. If we can ever see it through His eyes, we will see the solution no matter what the problem is. No matter what the tragedy, no matter what happens there is something else behind the scenes. You can tap into it, see it come and change the natural.

Remember that God, who is Spirit, spoke from the Spirit realm and spoke vision. God the Father gave the plan, the vision. Jesus saw it and spoke it into existence. The Holy Ghost created it as it was spoken. All Jesus did was speak the vision that the Father had given Him.

“God what are you going to give me seeing as I have no child?” God had already said He was going to give Abram a large inheritance. He would have so many children that there would be no way to count them. In the midst of this, Abram wants to come back and say, “Yes, I know God but in the natural… Your Word says this but God down here in the natural realm it is not happening yet. So when are you going to do it?” God says it is already done. When is Abram going to see it and speak it?

It is created when we see it and speak it. God is trying to get us to enter the creative power that He has. He wants us to enter the sons of God anointing. Sons of God speak creative words and they happen. You are destined to be one of the sons of God. Romans 8 says that the whole of creation groans and travails waiting for the sons of God. The most powerful people of God are those who get into the Spirit, know the Word of God, know their rights.

Paul said he had not been disobedient to the heavenly vision. That means you have to press in, get the heavenly vision and then walk it out. In prayer you have already seen yourself laying hands on the sick. In prayer you already saw yourself ministering to the group of people you are going to be ministering to. You then walk out the vision and lay hands on the people. Everything you saw in the vision begins to happen.

SONS OF GOD

Some people don’t see who they are in God. You are sons of God.

John 1:12;  “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:”

Sons of God act like Jesus. Sons of God speak the things and command the things, just as Jesus would. They know who they are in God.

People who don’t know who they are, are saying, “God, I sure wish you would do this. When are you going to do this? God, I don’t know why you don’t do this.” God looks at them and says, “How long am I going to suffer you? How long?” This is the very thing Jesus said to His disciples. They would cry and carry on because of a problem. He had been training them to seek the source. He had been training them to multiply the loaves and the fishes. “When are they going to get it?”

God knew He was going to have to work on Abraham a little bit because he was still seeing things in the natural even though he had a vision. God was trying to help him get over into the realm of the Spirit, to see things with His eyes. Abram was even trying to make it happen in the natural. He began to think that maybe he could make someone under his authority a son.

Genesis 15:4-5;  “And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.”

Don’t think of natural heavens. If you do, you will miss revelation. God was telling Abram to look up, look toward God. Don’t look down at the natural. Look up.

Colossians 3:1-3;  “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.  For ye are dead [to the natural, carnal, mortal realm], and your life is hid with Christ in God.”

Are you risen with Christ? What does that mean? Are you alive unto God? Has Jesus raised you from the spiritual bed? If He has, then you are risen with Christ.

Where your treasure is, that is where your heart will be also. You have to have your treasure in the heavens. The heavens are where God is, where the throne of God is. Now, God is in us through the infilling of the Spirit and through the new birth. When God is in us we are seated with Him in heavenly places in the spirit.

When we talk about looking unto the heavens, we are talking about looking above the natural realm. Look beyond the natural, carnal, mortal realm. Don’t put your focus on natural things, because, if you do, you will miss the supernatural things. Wherever you focus is the direction of your life. What you perceive, you will possess. If you perceive the flesh, you will possess it and there will be a lot of flesh in your life. If you perceive natural things and are going after them with your whole heart, you will be full of them but void of spiritual things. If you seek first the kingdom, then all of these things get added.

God wants us to work and to put our hands to things, but the whole time our heart belongs to Him. The world does everything for themselves. The church of Jesus Christ does everything for the Lord and for the benefit of others. Can you see the difference? One is thinking of the natural, this thing right here only. The church is thinking about eternal, forever, God things.

Genesis 15:5;  “And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.”

God had to get hold of Abram and tell him to look to heaven. The Hebrew word for “look” means to scan, to get a good look at it and to regard that. He needed to regard the things of heaven, which means the things of God, in order to disregard the things of the natural.  You can’t just disregard the things of the natural. It doesn’t work. There has to always be a substitute for everything you do. This is especially true in the spirit. There cannot be a void place or satan will fill it.

That is why transcendental meditation is so dangerous. In that, people are emptying their minds and satan fills it. With meditation of the Word, we fill our minds with the Word of God. The meditation of eastern religions is totally different from meditation on God, which is full of the Word, full of Him.

Anytime you want to be free of something, you have to get into the Spirit and get a replacement for it. Once a spirit goes out, he comes back looking to see if that place has been filled.

Vision produces provision when your vision is the vision of God. God wants us to start seeing through His eyes and then tell the stars. Declare what you see. Confess it. Proclaim it. Prophecy it and God will create it. Isaiah 57:19, says that God will create the fruit of our lips. But He won’t do it until they are the same words that came from His lips. If you see through His eyes and speak it then God creates the fruit of our lips.

God has a special vision for each of us to see that is connected to our lives. If you will press into the Spirit, you can see it. God is waiting for you to speak it so He can create for you the very plan that He has for your life.

FAITH VISION

When I first got hold of this revelation, I called it faith vision. As I was studying it, God spoke and told me that if I can press into the Spirit, see it with His eyes and speak what I see, then I will watch it materialize in the natural. I went into the bathroom and looked in my mouth at the old fillings. Once upon a time they had been silver but they had been there so long that they were black and cracked. As I looked at them, the Lord told me not to see them with my natural eyes. I should see those teeth the way He sees them. I took a moment and pressed in with my spiritual eyes. When I did, in the Spirit, I saw gold fillings in those teeth. I could still tell that in the natural it wasn’t done yet. Because of the vision, I was waiting for God to do it. God said, “No, no, no. Speak what you see now and believe it. Keep speaking it while I create it.” I kept looking into my mouth saying, “Yes, I see those teeth. I see those fillings turning to gold.” I said it over and over for about fifteen minutes. In the natural they were turning to gold. Eight or nine of them were totally replaced with gold fillings within thirty minutes.

I got on the phone, called the pastor and told him what I had done. He went into the bathroom and entered the Spirit the same way and God filled all of his teeth with gold. He ran to his wife and told her to open her mouth. She had silver fillings. He did the same thing again, entering the Spirit. Then he had her open her mouth again and everything was changed to gold.

It is not just limited to fillings in teeth. It could be physical bodies, organs that were missing, checkbooks that don’t balance, the lack of finances, trouble in your home, loved ones who are in turmoil, things on the job. If you can get into the realm of the Spirit with the vision of God and speak the vision, then God will create the fruit of your lips.

I have seen God put eardrums in people who did not have eardrums or the nerve endings. I have seen God do that in the healing of eyes, even blinded eyes. I have seen God do that and put new kidneys in my dad when his had been crushed due to a surgery. We saw pieces of his kidneys coming through the urine tubes. My brother and I went into prayer. While I was praying I slipped into the Spirit. It is not as hard as you think. I saw Jesus walk into my dad’s hospital room and lay His hands a particular way on my dad. When He did, I heard the Lord say, “Two new kidneys.” I told my brother and he was seeing the very same thing at the same time. We went and told my dad. He said that he didn’t see it but he felt it. All of a sudden his kidneys started operating where there had been no kidneys. The doctor made the statement, “It is if you had two new kidneys, sir. We don’t understand this.”

Are you catching the faith vision? Get in the Spirit and see what God is doing. He always has a plan. For any disaster God has a plan, a solution. He is always doing something in the Spirit. He is waiting for the children of God to get in the Spirit with Him, see what He is doing and speak it. Then it comes into the natural realm and begins to happen.

UNBELIEF

God is going to wrestle with us until the Jacob nature becomes the Israel nature. Some of us had better admit that there is too much Jacob in us. That means there is too much flesh, too much natural realm. Unbelief is a decision not to believe. It is based on the natural realm.

Jesus went to His own hometown and they would not believe He could do signs and wonders.[3] They said, “We can see his flesh. We know his mom and dad, his brothers and his sisters.” They only saw the natural. When you only see the natural you can’t step over into the Spirit. Jesus called that unbelief.

If you can catch this, miracles will begin to happen in your life that will blow your mind.

The devil is not all that big or all that mean. The problem is the flesh of the children of God. If you can defeat your flesh, there is not a devil that can mess with you. There is no devil that can hold you down or defeat you. The problem is that our flesh is too big. We have too much pride, too much of us. Jacob is too alive. He has to die in order for Israel to rise up as a prince with God and man. There will be a wrestling. God will wrestle until you are transformed into Israel. “Israel” means submitted to Almighty God.

They could not kill John the Beloved because he was already dead. You can’t kill a dead man. They tried to boil him in oil, to starve him out on the Isle of Patmos. That didn’t kill him. Instead he went out in the Spirit and had the vision of Revelation. You enter the realm of vision and the natural can’t even touch you anymore. You sidestep it just like John did.

Matthew 17:19;  “Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him [the devil] out?”

Jesus didn’t turn around and say, “Because that was a mighty big devil, boys. You have to fast for those big devils.” That wasn’t what Jesus said because authority is authority. You don’t have to fast to have authority. You have to fast to get your flesh under.

Matthew 17:20a;  “And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief”

Their unbelief was from being tied too much into the natural realm, listening to too many news programs, reading too many newspapers, listening to too many reports about the economy and finances, watching too many programs that talk about diseases and illnesses, reading too many obituaries, going to too many coffee shops and being up on all the latest doom and gloom. All of that gets Christians into unbelief because it tears your faith down and gets you into the natural realm. It starts making you think natural thoughts and that is unbelief.

Jesus was not talking to someone who was not a follower of His, not a disciple. He was not talking to someone who was a reprobate. He was talking to His own disciples. He was talking to us. Why couldn’t we cast the devil? Because of our unbelief.

Matthew 17:21;  “Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.”

He is still talking about unbelief. It is the same thought. He was telling them they were too carnal, too natural, thinking too much in the natural realm. Their focus was on natural, carnal, mortal things. Something has to be shut down in the natural in order to focus on the supernatural. Then you will be able to operate so much in the Spirit that when you speak to devils they flee because you are not seeing things in the natural.

PERCEPTION

In order to get rid of evil spirits, you must have the perception that they are there. If you don’t know the devil is there, are not aware of him, then you are not rebuking anything. You are letting him steal from you.

The Bible says, “When the thief is caught.”[4] “Caught” means found out. When he is found out, he has to return. But if he is not found out, he doesn’t have to return anything. As soon as you find out, rebuke him, command him to release it and to go.

A lot of people just go around using a shotgun method every day. “I bind every devil. I rebuke every devil.” It is like taking a gun and shooting it in the air. You may or may not hit a thing. But if you have perception because you put your flesh down and you get in the Spirit then you will know when a demonic spirit is there.

We think that spiritual eyesight means you see the way your natural eyes see. Spiritual eyesight means perception or knowing something, to be aware. If you have spiritual eyesight is it not like seeing with your natural eyes. Spiritual eyesight operates differently. You can still see images with your spirit man but it is more than that. It is awareness, a perception. You may be talking to someone and see something go across their eyes. You are now aware of that something and can deal with it. It can cross their eyes and you literally see it just for a second.

Fasting makes you perceptive so that you can see. The reason is that fasting helps you deal with the flesh. If we become too fleshly, too carnal, too wrapped up in the regular routine then we won’t be sensitive to the spirit realm and God wants us to be sensitive to the spirit realm.

2 Peter 1:3-11:  “According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge [revelation knowledge] of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:  Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.  But he that lacketh these things is blind [in the spirit], and cannot see afar off [can’t see into the spirit realm or see what is coming in the future], and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance [the door] shall be ministered [given to you, opened to you] unto you abundantly [the door will open wide] into the everlasting kingdom [not just the streets of gold, walls of jasper or gates of pearls. It is talking about the kingdom of God here on the earth. It is heaven kissing earth and changing it.] of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.”

To “be partakers of the divine nature” means to have a sonship anointing. You act like God here on the earth. You are not God but you act like Him. You are one of His sons. We are bone of His bone, flesh of His flesh. You are His offspring.

An entrance (a door) shall be ministered (given to you, opened to you) into the kingdom of God. The “kingdom of God” is the authority of God, the power of God, the gifts of God, the fullness of God, the miracles of God, the signs and the wonders of God, all that God is. If you have spiritual eyesight and perception you will know when the door is there and you will step through it.

In Matthew 13:13-15, Jesus talks about those who have closed their eyes. If they had left their eyes open they would be changed and healed.

What you see you be, when you see into the realm of the Spirit and see what God has planned for you. Jeremiah 29:11 talks about these plans. He has plans to prosper us, to give us a future and a hope.

Conclusion

God has a plan for you. In the spirit, He has a video of your life. It is all planned out with abundance, with all of the blessings that He ever desired to give you. You can press in, develop your spiritual senses, exercise them and feed a lot of meat into your spirit so that your eyesight becomes keen. Exercise those senses by taking time to see things from the realm of the spirit. Take time to press in and look beyond the natural. Take time to meditate on the Word and see things as God sees them. Take time and meditate on the scripture. While you are meditating, you begin to see it as God does. God then says, “Good, that is the way I see it. You are starting to exercise your senses. Now I am going to enable you to see some other things.” If you meditate on the Word until you get the eyesight on it, you will have what it takes to develop eyesight in the spirit to see other things that you want to see – your future, your prophetic destiny, the plans that God had for you before you were ever born, stuff He wants you to do. You can even press in and see how it is to be done, know what the next step is.

In the realm of the Spirit, everything is perception. Lack of perception shuts you down completely. You can’t have faith. You can’t receive a thing. You can’t go anywhere in God. You can’t become anything in God without it. You are like a boat on the water without a sail, without oars, with no rudder. You are just sitting there not going anywhere but where the winds of adversity blow you. Whatever life dishes out, you have to take it. That is not the way God designed it for you.

Jesus didn’t take circumstances. He changed them. He walked in the spirit and changed it. When He prayed and spent time with the Father, He saw things the way the Father saw them and then He flipped the order. He spoke it into change and changed it when He spoke. And, so can you!

SEEING IS BEING

We need to see into the spirit and see things the way God sees them. Get a vision of how God sees you and your situation. When God sees, He doesn’t just see your problem. He also sees the solution. God is aware of your problem, but His sight is so powerful that He sees the answer to it. He sees the blessing, the fullness of power, the fullness of promotion, the good things that are coming your way. He always sees the best that is coming because of His presence.

We have to see through His eyes. We have to begin to see what He sees, speak it and then He creates it.

You can’t be it until you see it in the realm of the spirit. You have to have the vision. Without a vision, people perish. Without a vision, people are destroyed. Without a vision, people give up. Without a vision, the enemy comes in and steals everything. But if you can see what God sees, then you can speak into that and God will create it for you.

The reason Jesus walked the shores of Galilee was not just to perform miracles so everyone could say, “Oh, how great Jesus is!” He did all His miracles as an example of what He wanted us to do. If He hadn’t wanted us to do those things, Jesus could have come to the earth, lived His whole life, went to the cross and saved us by the cross. He came and walked among men and did all of these signs, wonders and miracles in front of His disciples, in front of the seventy, in front of the multitudes who were following Him. He would teach them, show them and get disgusted with them because they wouldn’t pick up on it quick enough and do it themselves. Several times he asked, “How long am I going to have to suffer you? When are you going to catch on?” He is still saying it to the church now. “When are you guys going to catch on? I have made you kings and priests in the earth. I have made you sons of God in the earth. When are you going to step into what is already yours and begin to operate supernaturally in a natural way?”

God wants us to operate supernaturally. We are so used to operating naturally that we are trying to take the things of God and naturalize them when we should be walking supernaturally and changing the natural. We should be affecting the natural with the supernatural instead of letting the natural affect our supernatural. We have it backwards.

God shared with Jeremiah how He sees into the spirit and how He creates things. Then He tried to get Jeremiah to do the same thing.

Jeremiah 1:4-5;  “Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.”

“Knew” is the Hebrew word yaw-daw and it literally means to know somebody by seeing.

God saw. He had a plan, a vision of Jeremiah before He ever created him, before He ever made him. He said, “Before I formed you, I saw you in the spirit.” Our God doesn’t create anything without a vision. Our God does not do miracles without a vision. Our God did not create this earth without seeing it first. He saw it, then He spoke it and then it was created. We are going to look at these three steps, see how God turned everything around and finally got Jeremiah to do the same thing.

“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee,” before I made you I saw you. God started off with vision. He is trying to teach Jeremiah something.

Then God goes on to say, “I sanctified thee.” The word “sanctify” in the Hebrew means to proclaim. It is not just to consecrate and dedicate. It is to proclaim consecration and dedication. It is much like the word “prophesy” – to proclaim.

So, first God saw. Then He proclaimed or prophesied. We know that as the word “speak”. Speak the vision.

God spoke it out.

“… And I ordained thee a prophet.” “Ordain” (Hebrew: naw-than) means to give or to print something out, to create something.

God was telling Jeremiah that these three things are His mode of operation. He sees something (get a vision), then He proclaims the vision (speaks it), then He creates it. God sees it, proclaims it, and creates it.

Jeremiah 1:6;  “Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.”

He is not seeing what God is seeing. “Child” in Hebrew means an infant, a little baby who can’t do anything. Jeremiah wasn’t just saying he was a little child but was saying he is just a little baby. “I am a baby. I can’t do anything. You are God and I am a nothing.” Yes, He is God, but He didn’t create you as a nothing. He created you as a king and priest unto Him. He created you to be bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. He created you as His offspring, to operate as He operates.

As we read further, we see that God has to correct Jeremiah’s thinking before he could enter into operating as God operates. God has to change our way of thinking. Our mind has to be renewed to the Word of God. Romans 12 tells us that we can’t be conformed to this world, but must be transformed by the renewing of our mind. We have to go through transformation before we can ever form or create something. We have to be transformed by the Word of God. So God began to deal with Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 1:7;  “But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child:”

Don’t say, “I am a worm in the dust. I am a nothing and a nobody.” Don’t say, “I can’t do anything.” Don’t say those things. God knows that life and death is in the power of the tongue and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.[5] You have to watch your words because life and death is in the power of the tongue. Don’t say you can’t do anything. Don’t say you don’t have any authority. Don’t say this faith thing doesn’t work for you. Don’t say healing doesn’t work for you. Don’t say that prosperity doesn’t come your way. Don’t say that you can’t pay your bills. Don’t say you can’t make it. God said, “Say not these things.”

Then God said:

Jeremiah 1:8;  “Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD.”

Jeremiah was not to be afraid of people. We are not to fear man or man’s opinion. It makes no difference if people like you or dislike you as long as God likes you. If God be for you who can be against you? The opinion of man means very little because their opinion will change. In fact, their opinions change quickly. One moment they hate you, the next they love you. Human beings are very fickle. They go back and forth. If you go by their opinion you will be riding the waves. One moment they will say something good and you will be on the way up. When they say something bad you are way down. You are on an emotional rollercoaster and your life is a mess.

The Bible says that the fear of man brings a snare. The word “snare” means a hook in the nose that leads you around because of the opinion of man. I don’t want to have a hook in my nose and try to please man. You cannot please everybody but you can please God. If you please God then you have accomplished much. Seek to please God. Don’t seek to please man. We always want someone to like us, to embrace us, to affirm us. We don’t need that. We need God’s affirmation. God will raise up godly men and women who are not fickle to affirm us. Popular opinion doesn’t count.

God told Jeremiah that he could not operate like Him as long as he was afraid of faces. We are not to be moved by faces. We are not to be moved by opinion. If you want to operate as God wants you to operate in the vision of the Lord, you have to see the things of God. You have to quit seeing in the natural. You have to quit seeing people and using them to determine whether or not you feel like you are important or whether or not you feel like you can or can’t do something.

Jeremiah 1:9;  “Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.”

When the Lord put forth His hand and touched Jeremiah’s mouth was a form of deliverance, of healing of the mouth. If you will quit saying the negative, you will start saying the Word of God. Sometimes, we need a deliverance in our tongues because we just fly off and say whatever is in our head. We speak the problem, the difficulty, whatever we are going through. When we speak the negativity, we need a deliverance in our tongues.

When someone is a baby in the natural, you spoon-feed him until he can feed himself. Once you get the food in him, it will give him strength. He will mature until he can feed himself.

Not only did the Lord touch Jeremiah’s mouth, but He also put His Words in his mouth. That means the Lord spoon-fed him the Word. If the Word is not in your heart, it has no power in your mouth. We have read this wrong. The Word has to come up out of your spirit. It is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks. If it is not in your heart, it does no good coming out of your mouth. There are people who quote scriptures and none of them are in their spirit. They read the Bible and their lives are not different. This book has to get in their spirit. The Bible speaks about Jeremiah later on when God told Him to eat the scroll. It was sweet like honey to his taste but when it hit his stomach it was bitter. It was bitter because he had to do it. It is sweet to hear the revelation but it is bitter when you have to walk it out and do it. If it does not hit your heart, it has no power in your mouth. The Lord had to spoon-feed him to get the Word in him. Until you get the revelation of the Word in you, you don’t have vision.

After God spoon-fed him, God told him to see, to look, to focus, to try to see.

After someone has had eye surgery, their eyes are bandaged. When the doctor checks the eyes to see if they have healed, they take off the bandages to let a little bit of light in at a time. The person will be asked to slowly begin to open their eyes and try to focus. This is what God was saying to Jeremiah. “Okay, I fed you the Word and got some revelation in you. Now start focusing. Start seeing in the spirit. Start looking with your spiritual eyes.”

When we look with our spiritual eyes we have to consider not what we see with our natural eyes as being the truth. We have to consider that the truth is only what we see in the spirit. Truth is that which cannot be changed. It is constant day in and day out, year in and year out. The facts in the natural can change. One day the fact can be that you are broke. The next day you have money. One day the fact can be that you have a headache. The next day you don’t have it. The truth that by His stripes I am healed stays the same always. The truth is that my God meets all my needs and that truth stays constant always.

2 Corinthians 4:18;  “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.”

Instead of looking at what is changeable, look at the unchangeable. Change the changeable with the unchangeable.

You have to understand that the things of God are eternal and unchangeable. The natural is changeable. You have to see into the spirit, get hold of the unchangeable and change the changeable with the unchangeable. It does work. The only thing that will change the natural changeable is the unchangeable.

Jeremiah 1:10;  “See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.”

“In the spirit, I have a place of authority for you. Can you see it?” God says, “See it. See what I have for you.”

Jeremiah 1:10 is talking about walking in authority, in deliverance.

When Jesus called His disciples together in Luke 9:1-2, He gave them power and authority over all devils, to cure diseases, to preach the Gospel of the kingdom, to heal the sick. Notice, He gave them power and authority over all the devils.

God was speaking to Jeremiah and telling him to see this in the spirit. “I will set you over the nations and over the kingdoms.” Once you start seeing what He wants to make you and what you really are then He will tell you your job description. Seeing is being in the realm of the spirit.

Now that the Lord has brought Jeremiah through this, the Lord starts testing him on it. God wants him to go ahead and start entering into being, entering into the vision and the creativeness that He wanted him to have.

Jeremiah 1:11;  “Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou?”

God is calling you by name and asking you, “What are you seeing? Do you see defeat? Are you seeing lack? Are you seeing sickness? Are you seeing the same thing continually as it has always been? Or are you seeing into the spirit and seeing as God sees? Are you seeing the unseen? If you are seeing the unseen then the unseen will begin to be seen because God will create it.”

Start seeing, start focusing in the spirit. As long as you are focusing in the natural, you are not seeing in the spirit. As long as you are saying, “I have this sickness, I have been going through this pain.” If sickness and pain is all you think about, all you are focusing on then you are not seeing that by His stripes you are healed.

“All I have is bills, bills, bills. I don’t know what I am going to do.” Seriously, who doesn’t have bills? If you are looking at that you are not seeing that “my God shall supply”. You are not seeing Jehovah Jirah. In Genesis 22, “Jehovah Jirah” means God sees provision. God’s vision is always pro, positive vision. Pro-vision. Jehovah Jirah, God sees therefore He provides.

Jeremiah began to see and then he began to proclaim. He did what God taught him to do. He began to proclaim what he was seeing.

Jeremiah 1:11;  “Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see [in the spirit] a rod of an almond tree.”

He was talking about himself. “I see myself as the rod of an almond tree.” The almond tree represented prosperity, plenty. He saw the almond tree budding, producing. He saw himself as an almond tree that was producing. He saw himself as prosperous.

Jeremiah 1:12;  “Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.”

You start seeing it, proclaiming it and God will get stirred up. “What you have seen, Jeremiah, you will become. What you have seen in the spirit is yours. You have entered the realm of the spirit, Jeremiah. You will become exactly what I have meant for you to become for I will hasten my word to perform it.”

“Perform” is a Greek word which means to make it or to create it.

Jeremiah started seeing what God saw. Then he started speaking what he saw. God was so pleased that He was creating the fruit of Jeremiah’s lips. He saw the vision, proclaimed it, spoke it and now God was creating the vision he was proclaiming.

In Jeremiah 29:11, God said, “I know the plans I have for you. Plans to prosper you, to do you well, to do you good, to give you an expected end and a hope.” God is speaking that to every one of us. “Before I ever formed you, I saw what I wanted you to be. I saw what you could be. I saw the potential and that is what I want for you. If you will get into the spirit with me, see what I see and proclaim what you see then I will create what you proclaim. I will perform it.”

I was sharing a little of this during a revival meeting I was holding with Apostle Fred Pine. He had diabetes for several years and there was a place on the side of his foot that was black and rotten. He had been told that if it progressed much farther he would have to have his foot amputated. This teaching is the very thing I shared. I didn’t even teach the whole thing but he caught it in seconds, began to get into the spirit and to see with spiritual eyes. As he got into the spirit and saw it healed, warmth came into his foot in the area that previously had no feeling at all. He took off his shoe and sock and in front of about 60 witnesses the rotten place began to fill in and to turn a pink baby skin color. His foot is now perfectly healthy and whole. His blood sugar count is also beginning to get normal and come into line.

Apostle Pine is full of the Word and could get in there quickly. If you are full of the Word, your spiritual eyesight is already operative. Did you know that if you are lacking in minerals and vitamins, you could go blind? The same is true with your hearing. If there are minerals that you are lacking, you could lose your hearing. It is very important that we feed on the nutrients of the Word so that our eyesight is very clear. You feed your natural eyes with natural food. You feed your spiritual eyes and senses with spiritual food. Our spiritual senses will become acute, sensitive, and operative. Then all you have to do is just look. Don’t look at the natural. Look beyond that. There is a truth that supersedes the natural facts.

GET IN THE SPIRIT

Revelation 1:9;  “I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.”

John was saying that he was sent to Patmos for the revelation of the Word that he had and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.[6] “Testimony” (Greek: mar-too-ree'-ah) means evidential witness. Not only did John preach revelation, but also there were also signs, wonders and miracles following. That is why they wanted to get rid of him.

Revelation 1:10;  “I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,”

If you want to see into the Spirit, you have to be in the Spirit. What does it mean to be in the Spirit? We are going to share what the Bible says about it. The Bible will interpret the Bible. Did you know that the best way to divide a diamond is with another diamond? The best way to rightly divide the Word of God is with the Word of God. The Bible says to study to show yourself approved, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.[7]

There is a wrong way to do it and that is with your carnal mind. The right way to do it is with the Word of God. Let the Word explain the Word. I have found out that where there is something you don’t understand, there is another verse to explain it. The more you are a student of the Word, the more you will find understanding. You have to study it. Reading is a part of study, but reading is not study. There are many people who read the Word but they don’t get a whole lot out of it because you have to study to rightly divide it.

This next scripture will show us how to get into the Spirit. You can’t see in the Spirit until you are in the Spirit. While you are still dominated by the flesh and acting fleshly, you are not going to see into the Spirit with spiritual eyes. It will not work.

Romans 8:1;  “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”

“Walking after” means the direction you are heading. So, first you have to be after the things of the Spirit, want the things of the Spirit, head toward the things of the Spirit. How do you do it? You have to want to pray and start praying. You have to want to read and study the Word and then start reading and studying. You have to want to be in the House of God and be in the House of God. You have to want to get along with other people and start getting along with them. You have to want to forgive people and start forgiving other people. You have to want to live right and start living right. That is walking after the things of the Spirit. You have to walk after it, head in that direction. Whatever you pursue, you will possess. You have to pursue the things of the Spirit in order to get into the Spirit.

So, to get started you have to walk after the things that are spiritual. Walk after the things that are of God. Spend and invest your time and your life into things that are spiritual. You have to walk after the things of the Spirit in order to possess the things of the Spirit. You can’t get into the Spirit without pursuing the things of the Spirit.

Romans 8:2-5;  “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:  That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind [obey] the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.”

Have you ever caught yourself telling your children or your grandchildren, “Mind me now?” What do we mean by “mind me?” Obey.

Those who are after the things of the Spirit will begin to obey the things of the Spirit. Those who are after the flesh will obey the things of the flesh. You will begin to do the works of the flesh if you are after the flesh. If you are after the things of the Spirit you will begin to obey the Holy Spirit and what the Spirit of God wants you to do. The Spirit of God wants you to read the Word. The Spirit of God wants you to pray. The Spirit of God wants you to praise and worship. The Spirit of God wants you to come to the House of God. The Spirit of God wants you to forgive others, witness to others, love others, pay tithes and give offerings, serve the Lord, put your whole heart in the things of God. That is minding the Spirit.

Getting into the Spirit has been a mystery to the church. The church has not understood, but the Holy Ghost is unveiling through the apostles and prophets how we can step out of the natural, carnal realm into the supernatural, spiritual realm of Almighty God. There is a way to do it, but you can’t do it by trying to figure it out with your natural, mortal, carnal thinking. You have to renew your mind to the Word of God and choose to believe His Word above the natural realm.

Romans 12:2;  “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”

You can’t know anything by the Holy Ghost unless you are conformed to the Word instead of conformed to the world. When you are conformed to the Word, you are transformed by the Word, but often we are too busy conforming to the world to conform to the Word. When you are conformed to the world you are transformed into the world. Whatever you conform to, is the form you take on.

If you want to look like Jesus, you have to act like Him. You are going to have to walk with Him, follow after Him. You are going to have to figure out how He thinks and spend time in His presence, and then you will be changed. His thoughts are found in the Bible.

Romans 8:6-8;  “For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.  Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.  So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.”

You have to get your mind on God and on things that are spiritual, not keep your mind on natural things. The carnal mind is at enmity against God. That means it fights against and is an enemy of God.

You get in the flesh by simply following the flesh, thinking about the flesh, doing the works of the flesh, obeying the flesh. When you become fleshly, you become an enemy of God and cannot please God.

The person walking in the flesh has no faith because faith pleases God.[8] Their trust is in natural things. They are not trusting God in the invisible realm but only trusting those things they can taste, see, touch, and smell with their natural senses. That is their reality. But it is not reality at all because it changes constantly. That world falls apart quickly.

Romans 8:9;  “But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.”

The Greek word for “dwell” (oy-keh'-o) means to occupy, to rule, to dominate, to control. You are in the Spirit if the Spirit is in control.

Being in the Spirit means you are under the rule and control of the Spirit of God. You are totally dominated by Him. You are totally occupied, a military term that means it is His kingdom over you. His kingdom is ruling over you, in you and through you. Now you are in the Spirit.

Have you ever wondered why John the Revelator could say he was in the Spirit? When you stop and think about it, they tried to boil him in oil. Being so much in the Spirit kept him from being killed in the natural. You have to first be dead to the flesh in order to be alive unto God. A dead man can’t be killed because he is already dead. Now let’s look at a scripture that says we are supposed to be dead to the flesh, to the natural realm.

Romans 6:5-7;  “For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin [or the things of the flesh]. For he that is dead is freed from sin.”

You can be so dead to the flesh that you are not tempted by anything.

Jesus died before He went to the cross. He was so dead to His flesh that He said the enemy comes and can’t find a place in Him. He comes but can’t find a foothold because there is no flesh there.

Romans 6:8-9;  “Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.”

If you are dead to the flesh, which means the carnal things, then natural death cannot dominate you.

Romans 6:10-11;  “For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

You have to reckon yourself dead to sin. To reckon means to absolutely count it done. You have to count yourself dead in the flesh long before the enemy tries to set up a temptation. You don’t wait to be strong when temptation comes. Long before that, you rise up and say, “I am dead to the flesh. I cannot be tempted by these things, because I don’t even want them. They are not a part of my vocabulary, not a part of my life.” I died to alcohol and all that stuff a long time ago. It doesn’t even have an attraction to me. I am dead to it so I can’t be tempted with it. Whatever you are dead to you can’t be tempted by. If we can finally die out to all this stuff then there is no place anywhere for the enemy to get a foothold.

You reckon yourself dead to flesh and to sin but you also reckon yourself alive unto God. You totally consider that you are alive unto God and you are doing everything godly, everything righteously. You are doing everything that He wants you involved in. You already reckon it done. You already make up your mind that you are in it.

“Being in the Spirit,” means shut down to carnality and totally open up to the Spirit of God. You are shut down to the natural realm and totally open to the spirit realm, to the Spirit of the Lord. Now we can understand why John could say he was alive in the Spirit. Remember they couldn’t boil him in oil because he was already dead to the flesh therefore death had no dominion over him. If you are dead to the flesh, then death can’t dominate you. When they tried to kill him he was too much in the spirit for them to kill him.

I know a man who was in the Ukraine many years ago, before it opened up to the Gospel. He said that they took him aside and wanted to kill him with a poison that a chemist had come up with. One drop on the tongue of a dog and the dog died instantly. They told him to denounce God or drink a vial of this poison. He told them he could not denounce God. They gave him a moment so he prayed. He told them he died a long time ago so the poison did not scare him. Of course, they didn’t understand that. He told them, “If my physical body happened to drop dead, I would instantly be in the presence of God. If you drop dead, where would you go?” He drank the poison and stood there. Soon he started laughing and praising God. He was lost in the Spirit. He heard a noise and the men who had tried to kill him were on the floor weeping, crying and calling upon the God that they had just spoken against. If you are already dead then death has no dominion over you.

“Flesh” (Greek: sarx) is natural, carnal desire. If you are wrapped up in appeasing your natural appetite and are spending all of your time doing that, you will have all of the plagues, all of the effects and all that comes upon the flesh.

If you are not in the flesh, then you are not under plagues, diseases, sicknesses, poverty, or lack. You are in the Spirit. Death cannot reign over you when you are in the Spirit. Even if you drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt you. If something bites you, it is no big deal because you are in the Spirit and death can’t reign over you. This is God’s Word and it works.

Now, back to John. Remember, they couldn’t kill him by boiling him in oil. They thought they could kill him by putting him on the desert isle of Patmos. There was no shade, drinkable water, or food on this isle. It was blistering hot during the day and freezing cold at night. John’s natural setting was not conducive to getting into the Spirit. Some complain that they cannot get into the Spirit because the church is too hot or too cold, or the pews are uncomfortable. That tells me they are not in the Spirit to start with.

There is a place in the Spirit where the natural things cannot bother you, cannot hinder you, cannot hold you down, cannot even affect you anymore. That is where you get the vision, where you hear God, where things start happening.

Revelation 1:10;  “I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,”

“I don’t ever hear God.” When you say that you are saying you are not in the Spirit. You are telling on yourself.

Now, some of you may be hearing God and not know it, because you are trying to hear God naturally. Some are waiting for a voice to boom out of heaven and come into their natural ears. God is Spirit. He is in the Spirit and that is where He is talking, where He is ministering, where He is moving. So, if you want to hear God you have to get in the Spirit. God does not exist in the natural realm. He works in the natural realm but He exists in the spirit realm and works through us, in our spirit, to touch the natural realm.

“I don’t see God, so He doesn’t exist.” That means just because you don’t see a whale, they don’t exist. We know how ridiculous that is. If you want to see a whale, you have to go where they are. You can’t be standing on the land and see a whale in front of you. Land is not the habitat of the whale. Go to the ocean and get in it. If you want to see God, go where He is. Get into the Spirit, where He exists.

We are so wrapped up in the carnal, natural, mortal realm that we can’t get in the Spirit long enough to be able to touch anybody’s life. God wants to change some things in us.

“I want to hear God. I want to see.” Get in the Spirit. Deal with your flesh so you can get into the Spirit. If you don’t deal with the flesh, you won’t get into the Spirit. Your flesh will stop you. Go back to Romans 8:1-9 and read it over and over until you fully understand what it means to get into the Spirit. Meditate on these verses until you understand how to deal with your flesh in order for you to get into the Spirit.

Faith doesn’t come by mentally knowing God’s Word in your head. Faith comes when the understanding is in your heart.

Proverbs 3:13-19;  “Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.  For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her. The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.”

Do you want to know how to always have your needs met 100% of the time? Get the understanding of the Word of God and you will be furnished. You can’t do that until you get into the Spirit. It is in the Spirit that you gain the understanding by hearing God. He gives you the understanding. You will know how to operate, how to walk, how to live. You will know what to do and when you do it, it works.

Proverbs 16:2;  “Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it.”

Understanding, Proverbs says, comes out of the mouth of God. That means hearing God. You can’t hear God until you get into the Spirit and you can’t get into the Spirit until you deal with the flesh.

Revelation 1:10-11;  “I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book.”

First he heard something, then he saw. Once you gain understanding, your eyes will begin to see. You will not see the full scope of this until you look at the next verse.

Revelation 1:12;  “And I turned to see. . .”

“Turn” means to change your direction, to get a different focus, to turn around. If you want to see plainly in the Spirit, you are going to have to make some adjustments. You have to be willing to focus, to change your direction a little bit. You may have to turn all the way around to follow Him. You have to turn to see fully everything that God has for you.

Proverbs 1:23;  “Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.”

If I turn then I am repenting from my own direction, from my own ways of doing things, and from how I have made up my mind. There is no room for pride if you want to see in the Spirit. We make up our mind and say, “Bless God, this is the way I do it. This is the way I have always done it. This is the way it is done.” Okay, but you won’t see clearly what God wants you to see. You will miss a lot of spiritual eyesight. You will miss a lot of revelation. There are a lot of things you will not know.

God says to turn at His reproof. You have to be willing to repent of your own stubborn ways. You can’t have that and see.

Proverbs 1:23;  “Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.”

“Known” means to see. God will cause us to see what He is saying. He will show us these things. If we will turn and repent, He will pour out His Spirit and make known His word. He will show us the mighty things that we can have. He will show us the wonderful things that we can enter into. The fact that He is showing it to us makes it ours. Anything you see in the Spirit becomes your possession. Anything that God lets you gaze upon is yours with the title deed. When you see it, the faith is imparted to you to possess it. You are about to have a manifestation.

John said he turned to see and saw. “Saw” comes from the Greek word ido. It means to perceive, to discern clearly, to look closely, to peer at something that is concealed to others, to get a close look at something that others just can’t see and that some will never know. It sounds like privileged information that God reserves for those who will get into the Spirit with Him. He knows it would be dangerous for you to get hold of it otherwise. It would be dangerous to you and dangerous to others if you could even get a glimpse of it, if you are not in the spirit. You have to be totally in the Spirit before God can trust you with those things that He is about to show you.

Now let’s look at Isaiah. Something happened at the beginning of his ministry that changed him.

Isaiah 6:1;  “In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord. . .”

We have to understand why it was in the year that King Uzziah died that he could see the Lord. It never says he saw the Lord before that time. King Uzziah had Isaiah on salary. He gave him a house and supplied all his food. He gave Isaiah everything in the natural that he could want. Isaiah got so wrapped up in King Uzziah that he looked to the king as everything to him. It wasn’t until the king died that he could see the Lord.

When the flesh dies, dependence on the flesh has to go. You have to quit depending on your job to support you and start believing God. Your job is just one avenue. Did you know that God gives us multiple avenues? He is our source and He produces avenues.

God is our only source, but He creates avenues of blessing. A job is only one avenue of blessing. God is not stopping up the other avenues, we are. We stop them up. You will only receive through an avenue that you believe you can receive through. “But I expected it to come this way. It is going to come through my job.” Yes, but what if God wanted to send it another way? You have to start believing that God can send it in many ways and allow God to use any avenue He so chooses.

When King Uzziah died, Isaiah’s income was cut off in the natural. His natural means of support was gone. He had to look to God. Isn’t it amazing that sometimes God has to allow natural things to close down on us before we begin to see Him? If we would just see God in the first place, He wouldn’t have to do that. He would open up many other avenues because, more than anything, He wants you to see Him.

Once Isaiah got into the Spirit, the first thing he started seeing was the Lord. You get into the Spirit and the first thing you start seeing is the Lord, and not just the Lord, but seven revelations of Him. In the next chapter we will be sharing the seven revelations of Jesus and how we can receive them.

20x20 VISION

God wants us to have some 20x20 vision in the Spirit.

John 20:20;  “And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord.”

We are going to talk about why it is important to see the Lord. Then we are going to look at the seven revelations about Jesus. We will look at the seven parts of His physical body, which correspond to the seven golden candlesticks, which correspond to the seven churches. We are going to be changed by what we will be studying.

You can’t see Jesus without being changed by what you see. If you gaze upon the Lord long enough, you will become what you are seeing in Him. The Lord destined us to look like Him, to act like Him. We are called “Christians,” which means Christ-like, Jesus-like. We are supposed to act like Him, look like Him, walk like Him, talk like Him and do what He did when He was on the earth.

1 John 3:2;  “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”

This verse is telling us that as we gaze upon Him and behold Him in the Spirit (lovingly, longingly, soaking up everything about Him) we become as He is. The world is going to see Jesus because they will see Him in us.

2 Corinthians 3:18;  “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”

The image of what? The image of the Lord. We go from glory to glory meaning we have to keep looking and gazing, because every time we gaze we change. Every time you get into His presence, pray and wait on Him, see Him in the Spirit, you are changed a little more into that image, changed a little more into Him. You are changed a little more into looking like Him and acting like Him. You are changed a little more into His personality, into His character. You go from glory to glory in it. You are constantly changing to look like him. It is a transformation.

One of the ways we are changed is by looking into the perfect law of liberty, which is the Word of God. Jesus is the living Word so the more you gaze into the Word of God, the more you are transformed into the image of Jesus.

We have been talking about what happened to John the Revelator. Now we are going to go further into it.

Revelation 1:12;  “And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;”

The candlesticks represent revelation. Each candlestick had a candle in it that was lit. That light represents revelation. There were seven candlesticks therefore there are seven revelations of Jesus.

When you start seeing in the realm of the spirit, you should start seeing the Lord. When people start seeing in the spirit and are always seeing demons something is wrong. You will see in the spirit what you want to see. You will see in the spirit what your interest is in. In other words, you should want Him, long after Him. He said that when we seek Him with all our hearts, we would find Him.

Revelation 1:13;  “And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.”

The Lord is there among the candlesticks. The candlesticks are giving out light and illuminating the area so He can be seen. All revelation is to lead us to the Lord, to Jesus. If it doesn’t then it is the wrong revelation. The end result of revelation is to see Him high and lifted up.

As we get into verse 14 we are starting to see the seven revelations of Jesus, the seven parts of His body. We will end up with His countenance, which is the culmination of all seven together. When you look at Him in all of His fullness you see the seven parts of His countenance, which is His glory.

Revelation 1:14-16;  “His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.”

Notice it keeps saying, “His.” That lets us know it is talking about Jesus and the parts of Him that we need to look at.

HIS HEAD & HIS HAIR

First we will look at His head. The head of Jesus represents His supreme authority. It is headship authority. Colossians 2:10, tells us that He is the head over all principality and power. In Acts 10:36, Peter said that Jesus Christ is Lord of all. “Lord” is the Greek word koo'-ree-os. It means supreme authority, master of the universe. There is no one higher.

“But, I thought the Father was higher.” You have to understand that Jesus is one with the Father. The Word says in Matthew 28:18 Jesus said that all power had been given unto Him in heaven and in earth. After Jesus did what He did, the Father gave Him the highest place so Jesus is the head of all principality and power.

Daniel 7:9;  “I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.”

Daniel 7:22;  “Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.”

Daniel is talking about the Ancient of days and the brightness of His hair. In this instance, “hair” represents the wisdom of God, the fact that He is the Ancient of days, the fact that He has always been around and He knows all things – past, present and future. He is omniscient, all knowing. He has seasons in which He is going to so manifest Himself, manifest the wisdom of God so that the saints will come to the place of possessing the kingdom. We are heading into that right now.

We are supposed to be gazing on the white hair of God. We are supposed to be seeing the white hair of Jesus. If we gaze on that and understand His mighty wisdom we will start gaining the wisdom of God.

HIS EYES

Proverbs 15:3;  “The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.”

His omnipresence is His ability to see everything. Remember, we spoke about Him being omniscient, all knowing. We know from this scripture that He is also omnipresent, that His eyes see everything.

The Word also tells us, in 2 Chronicles 16:9, that the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are perfect, mature toward Him. The Lord is constantly searching the earth looking into everything.

The root word for “Jehovah Jirah” means God sees and because He sees, He provides. If He sees, then He knows. If He knows, then He takes care of it. He sees and therefore provides, because what He sees, He knows. Revelation 5:6, says that there are seven eyes of the Lord.

“Seven eyes of the Lord” means He has complete, perfect vision. He sees all. There is nothing that God doesn’t see. Jesus sees everything. If you will gaze into His eyes, you will start seeing what He sees. You can have 20x20 vision, perfect vision. You gaze into His eyes, see what He sees, and you are changed. You know things, because once you see something, you know it. When you see something, you are not in the dark about it. You need to gaze into the eyes of Jesus if you want to see something and know something that you don’t know.

HIS FEET

1 Corinthians 15:25-28;  “For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.”

“The feet of the Lord,” means that He puts His feet on top of the enemy. He subdues. It is a form of authority much like crushing the enemy under the feet. It is not allowing the enemy to do his own thing. The feet of Jesus, means that He has rule and He walks on top of the enemy. The same way He walks on the water, walks on the circumstances, He walks on top of the enemy. He crushes the enemy with His feet. His feet subdue and put under.

As you gaze on His feet very long and you start subduing and putting under. You start walking on the enemy. You start walking on the storms, on top of the situation and not letting the situation get on top of your head. You are no longer stand for the enemy being over your head, but you put him under your feet.

You gaze at the feet of Jesus and you will understand that you have feet of authority as well. You will see Him subduing your enemies and you will begin to do the same thing.

HIS VOICE

Psalms 29:4;  “The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.”

The Hebrew word for “voice” is kole. It means the sound of, the substance of His voice. The sound of His voice is power. That means that when He speaks, the sound of His voice is a power in itself. Satan recognizes the sound of His voice. If you hear His voice very much, gaze upon Him, look upon Him and are around His voice, seeing His voice, experiencing Him then that voice starts coming through you. Satan recognizes that it is no longer you.

Talk about casting out demons. “Jesus I know. Paul I know because he sounds like Jesus. Who are you? The sound of your voice doesn’t carry power.” We need His voice.

Isaiah 6:8;  “Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.”

Isaiah heard the voice.

Once you are gazing on Him you are able to hear Him clearly and discern what He is saying. It is like getting close enough to somebody so that you can get their attention. Sometimes we almost read lips along with hearing. To hear someone effectively, we almost have to look at them while they are talking.

If people are not looking at us while we are talking, we are almost sure they are not hearing us. When we talk to our children sometimes they are looking over here or over there. We call their attention back to us and tell them to look at us when we are talking to them. If we ask them to repeat what we said, they may not be able to. They did not hear what we were saying before we had them look at us.

We have to gaze upon Him to hear His voice, to really discern it correctly. Sometimes, that takes time.

Genesis 3:8;  “And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.”

They heard the voice walking. (Jesus is called the voice.) When they were with God His voice stood out more than anything else so they called Him “the voice walking”. The voice of the Lord is sweet, majestic, and powerful.

I have heard the voice of the Lord and I can tell you that it changes you. In fact I have never been the same since. I was about 15½ when I first heard His voice. I had just given my heart to the Lord, gotten straightened out and had gone through a major deliverance. It was late at night and I had just come back from a youth conference. The Holy Ghost began to shine a light on all that I had been doing for the last couple of years. I realized how I had made a mess of it. I began to repent and say, “Lord, if you can use what is left over, if you can do anything with this mess, then just take me and use me. I give you my past, my present, my future, every cell of my being spirit, soul and body, everything, every part of me. Everything is yours Lord.” I did everything I could to think of, everything I possessed and had. I made sure it was His. I laid it all down – all my wishes, my wants, my aspirations, my desires for the future. I gave it all to Him.

At that point I began to hear Him. He called me by name. “Phil, I want you to sing for me. I want you to preach for me. I want you to do this. I want you to do that. You will do a lot of things and go through many things but I will never leave you. I will never forsake you. I will be with you always even unto the end of the world.”

When He was speaking this to me, it reverberated through every cell of my being. Every cell in my natural body, every part of my spirit, every part of my soul understood Him.

When God speaks, we don’t need to guess to understand His meaning because His meaning is totally inserted into your spirit. When He says, “I love you,” the word, “loves,” just goes all through you and you understand what kind of love He is talking about. If He says, “I give you peace” then peace floods you and you understand what He means by peace. That is the sound of His voice. It is as if many waters had rushed over you (Revelation 1:15).

I have never been the same since. I started preaching right then and have never quit. See what hearing Him one time can do for you? When that happens to you, then when you speak, others will hear Him. When you speak, something goes into their spirit. You speak but it is no longer you speaking. You take on the reverberation of that Holy Ghost voice of God, the majestic voice of God, the power of that voice so that when you speak, it goes into people’s spirits.

I noticed after that experience, when I got up to speak or preach what I said would go right into the spirit of the people. It bypassed their ears.

HIS RIGHT HAND

Revelation 1:20;  “The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.”

Back in verse 16, we read that in His right hand were seven stars. The right hand is the hand of authority, the power to do. I would call the right hand of God the Jehovah hand. “Jehovah” means the God of might and power. In His right hand is the muscle of God, the power to accomplish all, the power to do all, the power to keep whatever is in His hand.

The seven stars are the seven angels of the church, the seven ministers. In His hand is the five-fold ministry. He has the power to hold them, to keep them. He has engraved them into the palm of His hand. No man can pluck them out of the palm of His hand because it is His hand of power.

When you gaze upon the hand of power you enter a security in God, a place of authority in God. You enter a place of power where you rise up and smite the enemy. You will be casting devils out. You will be laying hands on the sick and they shall recover. You will be speaking creative words. You will be commanding things to happen. You will be doing the working of miracles if you gaze on His hand.

HIS MOUTH

“Out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword.” There is a distinction between His voice and the two-edged sword. The two–edged sword is plain to see in this next passage.

Revelation 1:1-2;  “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.”

Revelation 1:9;  “I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.”

These are the two sides of the sword.

The word of God is the “rhema” of God or the fresh spoken word of God, the now word for a now situation.

“Testimony” (Greek: mar-too-ree'-ah) means evidential witness.

So, he will preach and give the word with signs following. That is the two-edged sword. One side of the sword is a fresh now word out of the Word of God, the now revelation. The other part of that sharp edged sword is the manifestation of what God is doing to prove that what He said is so. It is the same sword but there are two edges to it. Out of His mouth come the rhema and the manifestation.

If we will look unto Him and see the sword coming out of His mouth, we will hear the word of rhema, then act on it and get the manifestation.

Many times God will tell me to preach something and begin to pray for this problem and that problem. He confirms that word with signs following. That is the two-edged sword.

If you gaze upon Jesus and see the sword coming out of His mouth, then you are just about to enter into the power of the sword. After Gideon had his encounter with the Lord, he stood up and said, “The sword of the Lord and of Gideon.” It starts off with you recognizing it is the sword of the Lord, but also knowing it is yours. If you see it, you be it. If you see it, you have it. If you see the sword coming out of His mouth, the sword is now yours.

Seeing Jesus changes us into what we are looking at. We become powerful after looking at the all-powerful almighty Jesus. We are transformed into that.

HIS COUNTENANCE

The next thing John mentions is His countenance.

Revelation 1:16b;  “his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.”

His countenance is all of the seven things we gaze upon. When you gaze upon all seven parts of Him and see them in the Spirit you are getting an overall look at His countenance.

“Countenance” (Greek: op'-sis) means His glory.

Luke 9:28-31;  “And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.  And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering. And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias: Who appeared in glory [with Jesus. Jesus was appearing in glory.], and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.”

When you see Jesus in His fullness, you are beginning to see His glory, beginning to see His countenance, the transfigured look of the glory of God, the brightness of Him. In the midst of seeing His fullness, you start knowing things to come. Moses and Elijah both began to speak of something to come.

In the midst of glory, we see the future. In the midst of anointing, we know there is a future. In the midst of anointing we know we have a future. In the midst of glory we see what it is. There is a difference.

I once met a lady who had cancer and was not expected to live. We prayed for her and talked to her concerning the vision she had on her heart for young people. An elderly lady with a heart for youth, she thought it was all over. As we began to speak to her about her future ministry of helping establish some things with young people and helping a church go that direction, she began to revive. Without a vision, people perish. The anointing will let you know that you have a future. The glory tells you what it is, gives you details.

Matthew 17:1-8;  “And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him. Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid. And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid. And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only.”

The Lord does not want us to get our focus on other anointed prophets and ministries. Jesus is whom we are supposed to focus on. We need to appreciate the prophets and ministries that draw us closer to Him. We need to understand that the reason they are able to draw us closer to Him is because they have been with Him.

Acts 4:13;  “they took knowledge [note] of them [the disciples], that they had been with Jesus.”

By being with Jesus you resemble Him. You start taking on some attributes, taking on the anointing that is upon Him. It happens by being with Him, by gazing upon Him.

In the midst of that glory, the apostles wanted to make a tabernacle for all three of them. But, no, you don’t do that. You only build a place of worship unto Jesus. So the other two (Moses and Elijah) had to be removed quickly. Every time we worship ministries, they will be removed. Every major ministry that was worshipped in the past has been taken off the scene. We are to see Jesus only.

John 12:20-21;  “And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.”

They wanted to see Jesus. They knew Philip was a disciple and appreciated it, but they wanted to see Jesus.

When we come into the house of God, we shouldn’t come to see the prophet. We shouldn’t come to see the pastor. We should come to see Jesus. We come to hear about Him, to be closer to Him, because He is the One who changes us. Anything else is a temporary fix. “I must see Jesus. I must gaze upon Him. Only by seeing Him am I changed.” I must change in order to become what my destiny is. I must change, take on His attributes, look like Him, and act like Him. The only way I can do that is by being with Him. I have to see him, hang out with Him.

We can tell what church a Christian has been hanging out. They all praise God the same. They all shout the same. They even sound similar when they speak in tongues. Their Holy Ghost phrases are the same. You can tell the different camps. Because we are impressionable people, when we hang out with certain people we become like the company we keep.

When we hang out with Jesus, press into the Lord, spend time with the Lord, we are going to pick up His way of doing things. We are going to watch the way He moves and we will start moving that way. We are going to watch the way He rolls His eyes and we will roll our eyes the same way. We are going to watch the way He speaks certain things and we will do that also. We are going to pick up His laugh. When we hang around people we say some of the little things that they say and have the same mannerisms that they do.

I was trained under one prophetess who made certain movements with her hands when she was hitting a good point. I find myself making those same movements sometimes. I hung out with her, listened to her, was discipled under her ministry. Now if I really want to make a point, I will use the same hand movement that she used. What you focus on, you become like.

When you hang out with Jesus, focusing on Him, watch the way He reacts to certain things, watch the way He does things, you will find yourself doing things the same way. We shall be like Him for we shall see Him as He is.

To gaze upon Him, you can’t be gazing on the trouble of the world, on your problems, on your pain or difficulty and see Him. You can’t be gazing on your bills, on your lack, on the problems in your family. Sure, you know they are there, but if you gaze on them it doesn’t change them. If you gaze on Him, it changes everything.

We know that when He does appear, we shall be like Him for we shall see Him as He is.[9]

ENLIGHTENED EYES

You can’t see into the Spirit unless you have enlightened eyes.

1 Samuel 14:24-27;  “And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted any food. And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground. And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath. But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.”

Jonathan and the fighting men of Saul’s army had been fighting, persevering, attempting to do everything they were supposed to do. Saul did a foolish thing by telling them they did not need to take on nourishment for strength, even though they had been fighting non-stop. He made them commit to an oath, to make a vow. But, Jonathan was not around when that happened.

They came to an area where the honey was literally dropping out of the trees. It dropped on some of them but they still wouldn’t eat it. Jonathan came along, saw the honey and he was hungry. He took his rod, which means a staff, a support of life, or the bread of life and dipped it in the honey.

This word “rod” is the same word used when Moses held out his rod and the waters parted. The rod represents the Word of God. The Word of God represents bread. Jesus is the living Word and He said, “I am the Bread of Life.”

Remember in Matthew 4:4 when satan came and told Jesus to turn the stones into bread? Jesus answered that man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God shall man live. He was saying that the Word of God is bread, sustenance, the staff, the support of life, the bread of life.

Jonathan took the rod, dipped it into the honey and put it to his mouth. He tasted of it, ate of it and his eyes were enlightened.

“Honey,” in this passage, means a thick syrup representing thick revelation of the Word. “Enlightened” means to make luminous or to make light. Without light you cannot see. When you are in a darkened room you cannot see your way around. Light is synonymous with revelation.

Several years ago, I was in a cave in Arkansas. To show us how dark the cave was, the tour guide turned off the lights. I could not see my hand in front of my face. It was scary dark, a darkness you could feel. He said that people who get lost in those caves go mad because of the way the darkness affects them. We are not used to abiding in total outer darkness. We have to have light. In fact, even at night there is still light. As human beings, we cannot live without light. In Alaska and places like that there is not much light for months and there is more depression, more suicide, more drug addiction, more alcoholism. We are not meant to be without light. We love the sunlight. A beautiful day makes us feel great.

Ephesians 1:16-18;  “Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,”

There is wisdom and revelation going on in this verse, followed by the eyes of your understanding being enlightened.

The honey is the revelation that brings enlightenment. It enables you to see clearly in the spirit in order to operate, to get around, to do what is necessary to be effective in the Holy Ghost.

Ezekiel 3:2-3;  “So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll [the scroll]. And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.”

In other words, he started getting the revelation after he got it is his belly. God caused it to become sweet to his taste.

Revelation 10:9-10;  “And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.”

When you get a revelation of the Word of God, it is real sweet. When it hits your spirit you see that you have to walk it out, live what you just saw, live what you just tasted. Then it turns bitter in your belly. We love good prophecies until we realize that we have to use those prophecies to war a good warfare to see what was prophesied come to pass.

Many times after I prophesy to people good things, the opposite happens first. When they first heard it they got all excited, it was sweet. A few days later I don’t think they even like Phillip Rich anymore. When you first get the word it is sweet, awesome. Then it can get bitter because you have to do it. You have to walk it out, take that prophecy and war a good warfare. You have to rise up and say, “Devil, this is what God said. It is sweet to me. It doesn’t matter what it looks like in the natural I am going to do what this word says. I am going to walk this revelation out. It may look bitter in the natural but it is about to get better in the spirit. It is going to change.”

Three Honey Facts

Honey Is Of Great Value

Spiritual honey is greater in value than gold or silver.

Psalms 19:7-1;  “The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.  The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.  More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.”

The revelation of the Word, which is the honey, is more to be desired than silver and gold. It is more costly.

Proverbs 3:13-16;  “Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding [revelation]. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.”

This verse is telling us that you get the honey and you get the money. The honey produces the money, brings the money. It is the Word of God.

If you catch this, you will long for revelation more than you will long for natural wealth. Don’t follow after wealth. Follow after the honey of God, the revelation of God and you will have all the other stuff that you want. It will attract it, produce it, bring it into your life.

Giving is a part of prosperity but it is not the only part. There are people who give, who will never prosper because they don’t have revelation. Another ingredient to prosperity is revelation of the Word. Along with your giving, you have to have the honey because the honey produces revelation, facilitates it and attracts it to your life. If you get the revelation that God meets your need and you have tasted the sweetness of it, then money comes to you. As soon as you taste the sweetness of how God is going to meet your needs and what His Word says about it, then money comes to you fast. That is why you can say “money cometh”. Think about it. Honey is sticky and causes money to stick right to you. You attract prosperity instead of repel it.

Honey Causes Discernment

Isaiah 7:14-15;  “Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel [Jesus].  Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.”

“Butter” represents strong anointings. “Honey” is strong revelation of the Word. “Know” (Hebrew: yaw-dah) means to ascertain by seeing, by observation, to discern, to perceive. Jesus, Immanuel, would eat the butter and honey, and then He could see in the Spirit and would discern what He was seeing. His eyes would be enlightened and He would discern what was and what wasn’t of His Father. Eat enough spiritual honey and you can tap into that.

You ought to live for revelation, not just live to read the Word. That is part of it but you have to dip the Word into the honey, dip the bread of life into the honey.

The logos word will not change you. The revelatory part is the honey. It takes the rod to get the honey. Jonathan had to dip the rod (the logos) in to get the honey (the rhema).

You have to have revelation to live. That is how you are going to have abundance. That is how you can walk in health. That is how you are going to see everything that the logos says come to pass. Have you ever heard the words, “I wish that was happening in my life?” When you get a revelation, it will. When you taste the sweet revelation of the honey of the Word, it will start happening.

Let’s look at how Jesus reacted after getting all this honey. Remember, honey gives you spiritual eyesight and discernment. Remember also that “know” and “see” are synonymous terms. “Know” (Greek: ido) means to see. This is where we get the Latin counterpart “video”.

John 13:3;  “Jesus knowing [seeing] that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;”

Jesus had the revelation that all things were given into His hands. He had the revelation that He came from God. He had a revelation that He was going back to God. He said, “Now go ye therefore and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” Jesus took all the power, turned around and gave it to the church. You have to have a revelation of that or you will never walk in it.

Jesus knowing or seeing it in the Spirit, having honey on it, knew that all things were given into His hands, that He came from God and was going to God. He rose up from supper, laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. In other words, He was saying, “Because I know who I am I can be a servant.” If you don’t know your authority, you won’t be able to humble yourself and serve others. You have to know who you really are, where you really come from. You have to know who your God is. You have to know who you are in Him and who He is in you then you don’t worry about the pride issue because that doesn’t even matter anymore. You know who you are and now you can serve.

The reason most people don’t serve is because they don’t know who they are in God. They don’t know what they have in God and they don’t know who God is in them so they can’t serve. In other words, they don’t have any honey.

Matthew 9:1-4;  “And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city. And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee. And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves [they said to themselves], This man blasphemeth. And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?”

When you get a lot of revelation, you will start tapping into seeing things in the spirit, even hearing people’s thoughts. Sometimes while I am preaching I will stop and answer the thoughts of the mind. I do it a lot. I do it so often sometimes that I forget I am doing it. I will stop and answer what someone is thinking. How can I do that? The revelation of the Word enables me to see it. The revelation of the Word enables me to know it. The revelation of the Word enables me to tap into it.

If you get the honey of the Word you will start seeing things in the spirit and knowing things you could not know. Revelation of the Word begets revelation in the gifts. The Holy Spirit told me one time that the anointing that gives revelation in the Word is the same anointing that gives revelation into people’s lives and what is happening. Anytime you tap into revelation know that there are other branches of it. You can easily slide into those other branches of revelation and minister. It is available and easy to walk into.

Honey Brings Rewards and Fulfillment of Destiny

Proverbs 24:13-14;  “My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:  So shall [in the same way. As it is in the natural so it is in the spiritual.] the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it [discovered, received the honey], then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.”

As you get the honey and start eating of this revelation there is a reward attached to it. What is the reward? Whatever the revelation is about.

You get a revelation about salvation and you are about to get the reward of being saved. You get a revelation of healing and the reward is that you step into healing. You get a revelation of prosperity, how much God wants to bless you and you start stepping into that. You get a revelation of household salvation and all your family is going to come into the kingdom of God. Revelation brings manifestation. It is the honey.

Your expectation is your destiny. It is what you expect God to do with your life in the earth. It is what you were called to do before you were even born. It is the blueprint of Almighty God that He drew up before you were ever conceived. This is your expectation. It won’t be cut short and it won’t be cut off. What you expect God to do with your life is going to happen because you have been eating on the honey and getting a reward with every bite. You are seeing into the realm of the spirit and perceiving things, revelatory gifts, revelation word, revelation power, revelation authority, revelation dominion, revelation possession, revelation walking, revelation talking.

How To Get The Honey

The Song of Solomon is about Jesus and the church. The main point of this book is to tell us how much Jesus loves us, how intimate He wants to be with us.

Song of Solomon 2:1;  “I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.”

You and I are supposed to be espoused to Jesus? He is our spouse. We  are to be married to Jesus? He is the groom and we are the bride of Christ. One day, when He is finished getting the mansion ready and the Father inspects it, we will go to live there.

We need to understand Jewish history in order to understand this. A betrothal would take place and then the groom would take off to build the house. The father of the bride would inspect it and let him know if something else needed to be done or if it was okay. When the house was just right the father would let him go and get his bride.

Jesus said He was going away to prepare a place. He is waiting for the Father to say it is good enough. When that happens, the trumpet is blown, the procession takes place, the dead in Christ shall rise first and we, which are alive and remain, shall be caught up to meet Him in the air. So shall we ever be with the Lord.

He is our spouse. We are supposed to be in love with Him.

Song of Solomon 4:11;  “Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.”

We get the honey from the lips of Jesus. It comes from His mouth, under His tongue. We must have some intimate times with Him. We get revelation while we are in prayer, loving on Him, weeping and crying, and embracing Him. The honey comes from intimacy with Him. If we use the Word of God it gives us entryway, the ability to go right in with Him.

Psalms 2:12 says to kiss the Son. In the Hebrew to “kiss the Son” means to connect to Him, to touch Him, to attach yourself to Him. In other words, you wrap your arms around Him and say, “I am not letting go of you. I am in love with you, Jesus.”

Deuteronomy 32:13;  “He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;”

Jesus is the rock. To “suck honey” means to draw it forth, to draw it out. An absolute hunger for Him is what will cause the honey to come forth from His lips to ours. When it comes to our lips then all of a sudden reality comes. Honey brings revelation, which is reality. We start seeing things the way God sees them. We start knowing things the way God knows them. We start operating on a totally different realm.

It is time to start operating in the realm of the Holy Spirit and seeing in the Spirit!

[1] Matthew 16:15-18

[2] We teach this in our course The School of the Prophets. See our website, www.epaministries.com, or call the Ekklisia office for more information.

[3] Matthew 13:54-58

[4] Proverbs 6:31

[5] Proverbs 18:20-21

[6] Revelation 19:10

[7] 2 Timothy 2:15

[8] Hebrews 11:6

[9] 1 John 3:2

Table of Contents

Copyright

PRO-VISION

sons of god

faith vision

unbelief

perception

Conclusion

SEEING IS BEING

GET IN THE SPIRIT

20x20 VISION

his head & his hair

his eyes

his feet

his voice

his right hand

his mouth

his countenance

ENLIGHTENED EYES

Three Honey Facts

How To Get The Honey