The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like
hinds' feet,and he will make me to walk upon mine high places.
Habakkuk 3:19
wonderful baptism of the Holy Ghost, the strength to come out of the systems of men,
but our hearts pant to go on unto perfection!
Hebrews 6:1,2, "Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrines of Christ, let us go
on unto perfection"! Paul lists these wonderful principles in these first two
verses-----then he invites us not to neglect these foundational principles, but to go on
unto---PERFECTION, to come up HIGHER in our walk with God.
So many today can't get beyond the foundational principles, yet their heart yearns for
the deeper things of God, real intimate fellowship and the faith to walk in obedience!
We hope these few pages to come will help all of us to reach the high places. As we
walk with God, we come to realize THAT THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY GHOST, is
not the be all and end all. The walk does not end with the Holy Ghost, but rather just
begins. How exciting to know this is what Jesus meant when He said, When He
comes He will take of mine and show it to you.
Yes, God wants to show us more than we presently have...what is God after, what is
God's purpose, you and I going through all the things we go through...is it not to
perfect and mature us. Is it not to grow us up in God? If we run from these
dealings we can not grow and mature. We do not find the true peace.
The more we see of Jesus, the closer we get to Him, we hunger and thirst after more
of Him. Why is this? Because we come to love Him more and more everyday
recognizing the terrible price He paid for our salvation!
Therefore, there is nothing He can ask or show us that we wouldn't do.
Our heart's desire is to honor Him with obedience.
This is coming up higher.
The scripture tells us we are seated in heavenly places...so this truly is a great
invitation, but also a challenge to leave the call of the world...the betrayal of
compromise and the flesh and its unwillingnesses to truly follow the will "OF JESUS
CHRIST THE LORD"!
Thank God we have been encouraged through His Holy Spirit and the grace of God to
come as far as we have come, BUT we feel that call to go on to THE HIGHER
PLACES. Thus saith the high and lofty one who inhabits eternity, whose name is
Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble
spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Isaiah 57:15
True revival comes from TRUE HUMILITY AND REPENTANCE. A contrite attitude
and the willingness to be at peace with all men as much as lieth within us. This is why
we need the fruit of the spirit as well as the gifts of the spirit. The high places is
spiritually coming into a balance.
We so much want God to come down and visit us...and we praise God for the times
this happens...BUT He desires us to come up higher to
THE HIGH PLACES
This can be accomplished by walking with a humble attitude, listening,
being correctable, and with a repentant heart.
Yes, he wants us to get the victory and be an overcomer.
The good Lord loves us so much and His desire is that we truly may find the deep
desires and longings of our heart fulfilled. This also is accomplished by coming out
and up and meeting Him in the High and Lofty place, of course this is not a
designated physical place, but the attitudes of the heart when it cries; we are not.....I
am not.....of this world!
Ye are not of this World
You and I need to speak, meditate, cultivate, this attitude of the heart.
The martyrs both male and female went singing to the fires of Oxford and the gallos of
Edinburgh. They had this attitude of heart, to them they were going home...going on to
be with Jesus, they were not of this world.
As the scripture they were pilgrims and strangers just passing through.
They had overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil.
Their walk had taken them on up to the high places.
They overcame by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their
testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. Rev. 12:11
They had reached the high places in God by denying self, carrying their cross, and
following Jesus. Some sang in their time of death.
Surely, they had gotten the victory, surely they had overcome, and surely they leave an
example and testimony to you and I that by the grace of God and the power of the
HOLY GHOST, we can honor our God with our life.
FOR WHAT IS OUR LIFE IF IT IS NOT
LIVED OUT FOR GOD?
