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I
awoke with an image in my mind’s eye followed by an application of the image
and a message for a designated people. I
saw a moving walkway like those inside of airports that provide a means for
people to accelerate their pace to their destination if they choose to walk rather
than stand idly on the walkway. Otherwise,
moving walkways provide an opportunity for people to relax and be carried along
to their destination, but not necessarily at an accelerated pace.
Then
the Lord began to minister to me about a people whom He has given an
accelerated grace for an accelerated pace in this season of their journey. Yet, with that accelerated grace He is
requiring that you keep walking forward.
Do not relax by standing idle expecting for the accelerated grace to
carry you like the moving walkway in the airport. It is time to move forward with the
accelerated grace in order to accelerate your pace. This is imperative so that you do not miss
your flight that will take off at a set time in order to carry you to your
ultimate destination and the possession of your inheritance as sons and heirs
of God.
For
this is the appointed time for acceleration, because of the NEED for the
internal luggage that you are carrying to His designated destination for the fulfillment
of the very assignment for which He sent you into the Earth. This internal luggage is what the Lord
imparted into you before He sealed you and sent you into the Earth. It is your invisible and internal
inheritance. I know it sounds strange to
talk about an INTERNAL inheritance, because we are so accustomed to searching
for an EXTERNAL inheritance. After all,
didn’t the Lord tell Israel to possess a land flowing with milk and honey? This was not a figurative or invisible land. It was a very real, visible and tangible land
that they had to go to WAR to possess and inhabit as their God GIVEN
inheritance. Yet, in the New Covenant we
are told that “the Kingdom of God is within” us. It is “Christ IN US, the hope of glory” (Luke
17:21; I Colossians 1:27). But let us go
back to the very beginning to understand the relationship between our God given
internal and external inheritance.
Genesis 1:27-28 – “So God created
humankind in his own image; in the image of God he created him: male and female
he created them. 28 God blessed them:
God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Rule
over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air and every living creature that
crawls on the earth.”
In the
beginning, we were CREATED to reflect and manifest the IMAGE of God. He instructed us to "be fruitful,
multiply, fill the earth, subdue it and have dominion" as co-stewards and
partners with Him. Our POSSESSION of the
land and exercising of DOMINION over the EARTH causes the EARTH to reflect and
manifest our IMAGE (the IMAGE of its possessor), which is equivalent to the
IMAGE of the One (the Lord) who possesses us.
In other words, just as we are the Lord’s inheritance and reflect Him as
IMAGE, so is the Earth our inheritance and reflects us as IMAGE. Likewise, the internal Garden of Eden (Delight) is reflected by the external Garden of Eden (Delight), both of which are our inheritance as sons and heirs of God.
So, fast
forward to the time of Moses when the Lord sent the congregation of Israel to
POSSESS the land that was flowing with milk and honey. It was a land that was ALREADY PREPARED for
them. Thus, the Lord's INTENT was that
our LAND or INHERITANCE would bear our IMAGE, the IMAGE of fruitfulness,
multiplication, fullness, wholeness as a result of our possession of it and
dominion over it.
Now
fast forward to the book of Revelation, when Christ declared, “BEHOLD I MAKE
ALL THINGS NEW.” Also, the apostle John
testified, “BEHOLD the kingdoms of the Earth have BECOME the Kingdom of our
Lord and His Messiah.” In other words, “BEHOLD
My original INTENTION has come to pass. A
family of SONS who bear my image and a KINGDOM in the Earth that bears My IMAGE
revealed and manifested through My SONS on Earth as it is in Heaven."
So, now
the Lord is saying that He has given a remnant an accelerated grace for an accelerated
pace. For what purpose? It is because this remnant has spent much
time in the “wilderness terrain”, where Holy Spirit has been maturing the
carriers of Kingdom inheritance and the internal fruit of that
inheritance. The Lord is saying that NOW
IS THE TIME that the internal fruit and inheritance is RIPE and ready for harvest. Now is the time that the internal inheritance
is READY to be reflected and manifested externally through the IMAGE of an
external inheritance. For it is THIS
PROCESS that the Lord was working out within the nation of Israel in the wilderness. He was preparing them to be carriers of an
internal inheritance that would be REFLECTED AS IMAGE in the land that He has
already prepared in advance… an inheritance flowing with milk and honey. But when the Lord inspected Israel’s INTERNAL
FRUIT that was to be reflected as IMAGE in the land, their fruit (character)
was not ready!
Yet, the
Lord says… "there is a remnant NOW in THIS GENERATION that are ready! They have been faithful throughout the
apostolic process of their lives and the internal fruit and inheritance is EVIDENT
and VISIBLE. Truly, Christ is REVEALED
within them and the hope of glory is clearly seen by His ever present and all seeing eye. Truly, Christ is MANIFEST through the
character of their lives and an external inheritance has been prepared for them
to possess and over which they have been given dominion in this appointed time. It is for THIS REASON that He has given an
accelerated grace for an accelerated pace."
“So, do not stop!” says the Lord.
“Rather, walk forward on the moving walkway that I have set before
you. Truly, now is YOUR TIME to possess
the land that I have prepared for you… a land flowing with milk and honey (fruitfulness).”
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