Mrs. Viki Gonzalez:
There are Scriptures all through the Old Testament that talk about God’s love for us. Psalm 136 says, “His mercy endures forever.’ In Lamentations it talks about the ‘steadfast love of the Lord…’ These are the same words in Hebrew.
I don’t just want to feel God, but I want to KNOW Him in every part of my being. This is why I worship Him and serve Him. In life so many people feel so unloved. When you do not know the love of God, you will feel ‘less than.’ God wants you to know His love.
Eph 3:17-19 “That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.”
He wants us to know His love. That we may be filled with all the fulness of God. When you’re full of God…
Eph 3:20-21 “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, 21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.”
When His love works in us, we are able to move in that power that works in us. If you really love Him, if you’re filled with HIs love, you’re able to do, He is able to do through you, more than you can even ask or think.
In this season (Easter), we remember what Jesus did for us. Remember that love of God. Know that love of God. It’s just amazing how much He loves us.
Bishop Gonzalez:
A transition took place and a mantle was passed from Moses to Joshua. God carefully orchestrated that shift. He brings us to revelation. He operates systematically with His people, strategically with His people. God does not make mistakes. To charge Him with folly is an injustice to yourself because He is right all the time.
A change took place, a prophetic utterance was placed on the shoulders of Joshua. He needed to know how to lead the people. At one particular instance, he called the people to circumcision. He gave them a new identity with a revelation of where they were going.
Paradigms were shifting, mindsets were shifting. Joshua told the priests to take the arc of the covenant approximately ¾ of the way down the road. He told the people to prepare themselves, sanctify, separate themselves. They were about to go where they had never been. They were shifting ecosystems. The dessert was over. God was going to show them His power and wonders with prophetic implications. He would take them exactly where He had said He would.
Eph 3:20 “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,”
Because of the DNA of the Spirit of God, when His Spirit came into us, to dwell forever in us, it was activated. Now the only thing that we have to contend with is our own will.
We have a clear path, you cannot look back anymore. You must follow where the Lord leads. You cannot go to your destiny until you have released your past.
This is a season of dominion and conquest according to the power that works in us. However, you can have a revelation of God’s plans for your life, but your will must be in line, submitted to Him. You will remain right where you’re at if you cling to your own will. You must have a vision and clarity.
‘Eye hath not seen…’
At this point, we’ve operated on a physical level. We have difficulty connecting the dots. Spiritual expansion is costly. It will cost you more than you’re willing to pay. It demands that you shift the way that you look at things. It shifts the things you choose to hear that will influence you.
You have to make up your mind that you will listen to the voice of the Spirit. Let that voice be the loudest. Allow Him to alter your identity. Come into alignment with Him. Now, there’s a new meaning to ‘walk in the Spirit’. It demands a different type of attention and sensitivity to the environment you are walking in. It was never about a specific city. It was about jurisdiction and authority.
Some have gone astray. They are the victims of their own wills, being desensitized by the wrong voices. We stand at a very strategic, tactical place. This is the season that multiplication will happen.
It will be all hands on deck. This will rise up. God will fill more than just a building. Understand what it means to walk in multiplication and acceleration. We will see things that we’ve never seen before.
“Eye hath not seen…’ We are now out of the desert. Visitation always leaves a revelation.
Don’t walk out with only a feeling. Walk out with a revelation. God wants to further your revelation. It’s about vision, a transitioning from the natural into the supernatural. It’s a different thing that God is doing.
Before, we tried to reconcile with very little clarity. God doesn’t give us the whole picture, but He does give us enough clarity. You’ve got to look for the revelation. You’ve got to KNOW Jesus. It’s not about feeling Him. It’s about knowing Him.
Even those who have His power within have got to have that authority. That DNA is trying to evolve and develop within us.
Many people come into the house with needs. We have to stop just being consumers. We’ve got to stop just seeking His hands and start seeking His face.
That’s not a relationship. Jesus wants givers, not just takers. Just because you’ve got a need, doesn’t mean that God will answer it the way you want. You might think you need something, but God is not your spiritual santa clause.
Eye hath not seen. What are you seeing right now? What are you hearing? What do you really need to work on right now?
But they are revealed unto us, unto those that love Him by His Spirit. It’s all about walking in revelation. When we walk in revelation, we don’t jump to conclusions. We submit everything to His will regardless. ‘My grace is sufficient for you.’ Can you walk in that? Even though you want something so bad?
We’ve got to be bigger than that. Moses went up to the gates and entered into the tabernacle and God met Him there. Revelation was brought at that point. God said, ‘I need you to remember that this is what you need to do.’ Moses blurted out from the innermost part of his heart, ‘Show me Thy glory.’
God’s glory is revealed through suffering. It’s a very painful process. It will cost everything. We are walking in revelation. What happens when this takes you to the foot of the cross?
What happens when your identity as you have formed it clashes with the identity that God has for you? What happens when how you think about yourself is radically different from the way He sees you?
Satan’s true assault was on Jesus’ identity more than any temptation.
Do you have just the talk as a Christian or do you walk the walk? Don’t celebrate longevity, celebrate landmarks, revelation, Spiritual understanding, overcoming bad attitudes and walking in the peace of God despite difficult circumstances.
Every day, do you know who you are? What is your true identity?
Visit the garden and let your will die. Jesus fought as any man would, but He gave up His will.
In that secret place the final chamber is the cross. Everybody needs to visit the cross, lay at the foot of the cross. Find your place at the cross, pick up your own cross, and follow Him. ‘Nevertheless I live, yet not I but Him who loved me and gave Himself for me.’
Moses said, ‘Show me thy glory.’ We’ve got it all wrong. No man can see His glory and live. When we say, ‘show me Your glory,’ we’re really saying, ‘Jesus, just kill me.’ Our idea of God’s glory has been lowered to just feelings and nice moments with Him. That’s a travesty! For me to live must be Christ and to die is gain. Don’t let me get in the way of His plan.
‘If my people which are called by my name…’ Something has to die. If we seek His face, we have to die. Dominion and conquest and moving forward into your destiny, all of that is contingent upon a death of certain elements in your life.
Prophecy will not be fulfilled until you take responsibility to give up whatever it is you need to give up. You can’t play the blab-it-and-grab-it game. It costs something.
Salvation is free. But, that’s only where it starts. When you start living for God, it’s hard. It takes determination. It’s not for the weak. You’ve got to have tenacity. Living for God takes guts and commitment. It takes, ‘I don’t care what other voices say.’ God will replace whatever you have to give up with something better.
If you want to enter this dimension, your vision and hearing have to change.
Isaiah 6:1 “In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.”
That vision took place through a death, the death of Uzziah. Uzziah was Isaiah’s cousin. They were blood relatives. Isaiah was called to be a prophet seven years prior to this vision. Why did it take seven years? Why did he finally look upward and say, ‘I am a man with unclean lips’? Why now?
What was he doing for seven years?
Who are we and what have we been doing? Whatever has to die, we need to let it die. That’s the only way God can take us where He has called us.
Isaiah was just a man. Yet, he had great and wonderful prophecies. God doesn’t bless you because you’re so awesome. He blesses you out of your potential. God sees you through your potential and through the blood. Moses was a mess sometimes, but in the New Testament, he could do no wrong.
We don’t get a pass because we’ve got Jesus inside of us.
This is a very defining moment. Can God entrust you with what He is about to reveal? Can He entrust you with all the cool stuff He wants to show you? Are your eyes and ears ready?
Upward look (to Jesus), inward look (to what needs to be crucified in you), and outward flow (to a world in desperate need of hope).
We’ve become such a group of consumers that we have forgotten what it means to be followers of Jesus. We’ve become spiritually constipated. The Holy Ghost is looking for an outlet. He wants His Spirit to flow through you, not get stuck.
‘In the last days,…’ Joel’s prophecy is quoted on the Day of Pentecost. Any church before Pentecost was too early, and any church after, was too late. We are the Descendants of, the continuation of.
If you want to know what you’re supposed to be and do, get in the book of Acts.
Job said, ‘Your old men shall dream dreams and your young men shall see visions.’ Our natural insight, perspectives and perceptions can no longer govern our choices. We must have supernatural instincts. God will let us see what He sees. Open our ears, Lord.
You’ve got to come into alignment and believe. This is really really cool stuff. See visions, dream dreams. There is seeing in the natural and supernatural. There is dreaming in the natural and the Spirit. God operates in the supernatural dimension. Don’t get the two confused.
See visions. Those two words could almost be the same, see/vision. In English, their definitions are nearly the same. However, they are two different Greek words. ‘See’ alludes to natural vision, every day vision. You observe and make choices and decisions naturally based on your observations. The problem is when we don’t understand there is a spiritual side, vision, that we need to tap into and develop. Our ability to operate in the spirit is stunted when we operate only in the natural.
We have the Holy Ghost, but we don’t allow Him to affect our senses. No one can choose to do this for you. We walk and establish our theology and limit our faith to what we observe in the natural.
In this dimension of acceleration and multiplication you must have spiritual vision.
We shotgun hoping that we’ll hit something, scattershot. However, God wants to make us snipers. The master sniper is the most experienced at long range kills. He reads and measures the wind. He is looking for zero value wind, where it’s coming from, its velocity, because that factors into how that round will fly through the air. He understands the barometric pressure and knows the rules of engagement, the size and depth of the round he’s got. He knows what level of force is necessary in order to win the fight.
Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight and expect to win. You need the right weaponry to neutralize your enemy.
Force continuum Rules of Engagement. We must understand how to war a good warfare. Don’t be entangled up with stuff.
‘Vision’ in Greek changes everything. Spiritual Vision implies that what we are seeing is a direct result of a download from the Spirit. This is revelatory vision. We see exactly what God sees. Everything changes. You see things differently.
This is what happens in the Spirit. You start walking in the Spirit. You initiate that process whenever it’s necessary. You see opportunities in the Spirit. This is how we begin to conquer. You see people in a whole new way.
People cry aloud and we respond, but this is not God’s work if they’ve already been ministered to. They must take responsibility for themselves to seek Him. If they refuse and constantly want you to do for them, and you continue to minister, you’re wasting your time because you’re operating in the flesh.
Paul said, ‘It’s not expedient…’
What happens when that shifts? You become more dangerous than you’ve ever been to your enemy. Your enemy can only count on the possibility that you’re not walking in this revelation. He will throw distractions all the time. (Just because someone demands your attention does not mean Jesus wants you to minister to them.) Listen for the Lord’s leading in response to a cry.
God makes room for our mistakes. He will reveal exactly what we need. Take responsibility for learning to listen, learning to see what He wants to show. Seek His face.
Those renditions of divine will, those things that seem to be encrypted in some form of typology sometimes, we can discern clearly God’s will, His purpose. He will show us the roots and how to deal with it. He will disseminate wisdom. He will show us how to handle stuff. He shows us how to fix the problems. We help lives get fixed. Now, we appropriate and take responsibility for what we see. Don’t be so busy about life and schedules and agendas and personal plans. Open your eyes. It’s inconvenient sometimes, but God has a good plan. We may not like God’s plans, but we must obey, because it’s good.
If you want to be used by God, let Him disrupt your schedule. Do your part, obey Him.
Our world is dying. Some situations are easier, a coworker who’s hungry for God. Yet, we’re not conquering what we should have conquered. We’re settling for a little piece of real estate. Multiplication and acceleration means you must position yourself according to what God wants you to do, and be. Walk with Him. Seek His face.
More Questions for Personal or Group Study:
- What really spoke to you in this message?
- How is your Spiritual eye-sight? How is your Spiritual hearing? What do you need to change in your life?
- Read Romans 12:1-2. Are you willing to obey these verses? What needs to change in your life in order to obey these verses?
- How can you encourage someone else with this message?
Excerpted from a sermon preached by Mrs. Viki Gonzalez and Bishop Rick Gonzalez.
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