Progressing in God

Progressing forward in God means:

a. He trusts us with more. The faith He requires from us today is not the same as what He required from us yesterday.
We are the containers of His Spirit and a life of continuous close fellowship with Him will cause us to “overflow” and His Glory and Anointing will be “poured out of” our inner most beings. As He trusts us with more, we touch other lives with more. We dare not just live for ourselves, we must trust the Lord to live His life through us, touching others. We are at a phase in God’s dealings with mankind where His Glory is being developed and manifesting in and through us.

b. He will constantly stretch us, which is both challenging and encouraging. Kathryn Kulhman once said ... "It is when you dare to believe God to the point of action, that something begins to happen". Faith is not lethargic it demands action, faith is believing to the point of action. We need to get out of the boat and start walking on water! We should not want to miss anything that God is doing, on any level. We should be devoted to being a part of what He is doing in our time. Warriors run to the sound of battle not away from it. Christians should likewise run to a move of God.

c. He’s preparing us for greater responsibility. Rick Joyner says: “I have spent many years studying both what enabled revivals to ignite and what stopped them. One common denominator with the way they all began is that they were all unique. They each began in different ways and under different conditions. However, they each ended in basically the same way. Because there is no easy formula for understanding how revivals and moves of God begin, it compels us even more to simply follow the King. Obviously, a move of God must be God moving, so our primary goal should always be to get close to Him and stay close to Him.” He also says, “How is the Lord visiting us now? He is coming the way that He came the first time-healing the sick, casting out devils, and delivering those who are oppressed of the devil. We are in the initial stages of a release of the power of God like has not been witnessed in over half a century, and which may not have been seen since Jesus.” walked the earth as a man. There are doors that stand open in heaven as we read in Revelation 4:1. A door is open right now for Christians to begin walking in healing gifts and to perform miracles in the name of the Lord. For those who already walk in these gifts and ministries, the door is open for them to go to higher levels of authority in them.”

d. He is opening up new avenues of prayer and treasure hunting. We need to see praying that is bold, that is strong. Praying that moves God is prayer that moves us. If we are not moved by our prayers how do we expect them to move God. Jesus had "strong crying and tears" (Heb. 5:17)- should we not pray the same way? Loud crying with tears. Gethsemane prayer, agonizing prayer is needed in our lukewarm laid back Christianity today. Isaiah speaks the word of the Lord to Hezekiah and may it be to us also spoken: "I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears." Prayer that is Spirit lead. Pray-ers that are born out of the Spirit. All good prayers are not necessarily God prayers.

“And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him” (1 John 5:14-15).
How can we change? We must desire God more than anything else. We must seek Him, and cry
out for Him, be open to His Spirit.

e. God is entrusting us with a move of God-what are we going to do with it? Are we ready for this next move of God-are we where He wants us to be?
Joy and freedom will increase to much higher levels.
When we become more hungry for God our sensitivity level increases.
There are many sides of God that we haven’t seen yet.
Hunger for God releases the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
We are custodians of more of God.
Our Prayer is: God release whatever is necessary.
Zeal for God will help us to overcome.