Don’t Drown in it; Make it the Pavement You Walk On

I feel like writing something else about God.

The Bible compares the world to a sea, and it compares voices (words) to waters. The Bible uses fish and the Sea of Galilee to symbolize human beings and the world. The Bible says God has a voice like many waters. The Bible says the words of the Holy Spirit that come up inside us are “living water.”

One of the things I don’t like about the world is that we are born submerged in filthy water. We are generally surrounded by voices that push us to destruction. Fallen angels and demons tempt us and lie to us, and so do people. So does our own flesh. We are besieged around the clock, by innumerable voices. Unfortunately, we don’t necessarily hear from God as much. Generally, we don’t. I was an adult before I heard from God, but I heard from the rest all the time, dating back at least to my birth. I probably heard spirits before that.

We need something to tilt the scales in our favor. We aren’t strong enough to fight continuously with our own words, which lack power anyway.

We’re like accused dissidents or terrorists being interrogated and abused by a series of inquisitors. When we capture terrorists, we don’t send a man in to talk and let him work until he’s worn out. We send one man in, and when he starts to fade, we send another in. We don’t let the terrorist sleep. Everyone is fresh and rested except for the terrorist, who becomes exhausted and gives up because he’s alone. We are not supposed to fight alone. We are part of a team, and the strongest member, who never sleeps, is God.

The word says faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. It makes sense, then, that bad things also come by hearing, and that they come by the word of other spirits, other people, and the flesh.

There is always symmetry in the supernatural.

Prayer in tongues is the word of God. When you pray in tongues, your mind may not understand while you pray, but gradually, things penetrate, and you start understanding things you haven’t learned with your natural mind. This is why prayer in tongues builds faith and brings revelation.

God also speaks through prophecy, the word of knowledge, the word of wisdom, and discernment of spirits. God has told us to covet prophecy. He wants us to have it. Failing to pursue it and expect it is disobedience. It’s available, and you should have it.

For a while, I’ve been praying for God to talk me constantly, to overcome the other voices. “Coincidentally,” I saw a Derek Prince video this year in which he showed people how to prophesy. I started doing it. I can’t tell you who will win the Kentucky Derby next year, because that’s now how prophesy works, but God tells me about the future all the time, and he tells me who I am in Christ.

It’s really good. It’s more direct than prayer in tongues. I can understand it as I hear it.

Satan, who is creation’s premiere loser and worst coach, tells me I’m just a random person. He says God has discarded me because of my evil nature and sins. He says God won’t do anything for me because I don’t deserve it. He says I’m crazy to follow God instead of common sense, and that it will blow up on me soon. He says I imagine everything I believe about God. He never says that about the things I used to believe about his own power! He never says my enemies are weak.

God says I am literally his son. He says I am a royal. He says I have great authority. He says I am exactly the kind of person he wants to do things for. He says I don’t need to deserve, because Jesus deserved, and I inherited what Jesus had. He says things are going to get better and better.

When I started doing this, I did it in fits and starts because I was afraid I would say stupid things. When I said something that sounded good, I wanted to quit, because I didn’t want to go on and say something insane which would prove the first thing I said was not from God.

I quit worrying about that. I started prophesying more and more. I haven’t had any letdowns yet. On rare occasions I’ve felt that I was going off course, so I stopped and started over, and things went fine.

When Peter tried to walk to Jesus on the Sea of Galilee, he sank whenever he considered the water and not Jesus. He rose when he focused on the Lord. That’s how life works.

We are stuck in this world for a while, and we have to make certain concessions. We have to eat, sleep, and bathe. We have to have money and things. We have to put up with all sorts of hostile beings. We are pulled away from God a lot. We are his feet, and the filth of this world that gets on us because of our connection to it is like the dust the disciples were told to shake off their shoes.

Jesus washed the feet of his disciples. He was showing how the Holy Spirit would counteract the “dust” our association with the world would cause to adhere to us. The flow of the Holy Spirit washes it off. If the Holy Spirit isn’t speaking in you, you’re like a person who has no access to a shower. You need help.

I am spending a great deal of time letting the Holy Spirit speak through me. I don’t know how I would get by without it now. Satan tells me ridiculous things about the future, and the Holy Spirit refutes all of it and gives me peace.

Satan will never quit, so I can’t quit. He has a real problem now that I have God’s weight on the scales with me. In the past, he and his kids could bully me and torment me, and I had no power to fight back. Now he’s the quadriplegic and I’m the heavyweight champion.

Christians need to know these things. The defeat most of us live in was never intended for us.