Live Behind The Veil

Just how difficult or simple is it to find God’s heart?

Many times our gut feeling is tied to God’s heart.

• Let’s talk about the Heart of God

• We open our hearts to Him, and He reveals His heart to us.

• “Create in me a clean heart O, God”

For our heart rejoices in Him, Because we trust in His holy name.

For God sees not as a man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.

But I am afraid that , as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.

Samuel said to Saul, “You have acted foolishly

But now your kingdom shall not endure. The Lord has sought our for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has appointed him as ruler over His people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.”

• If our spirit is connected with Him, everything else jus falls in line.

• It is a simple heart, if you have a heart to walk with Him.

• Sometimes it is that gut level feeling.

We can ask God to reveal His heart and He will show us, it is as simple as that.

As we are in motion and paying attention, then He will lead us.

We do have the option to follow His leading or our own instincts.

Being Led takes a faith and trust that He is indeed leading us.

• God cannot lead if one is not willing to do something.

• One moves out in faith and trust.

• Doing His will is a level of maturity.

• Not my will, but Thine be done.

• You cannot steer a parked car.

I, being in the way, the Lord led me…

19b. He can do only what He sees His Father doing, because what ever the Father does the Son also does,

20a. For the Father loves the Son and shows Him all He does.

Moved with compassion, Jesus stretched out His hand….

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose.

Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done.

• What are You doing today Lord?

• What does He want?

• You say: “Lord show me the way”

As we move out in what we believe the Lord is showing us, that is how we continue to learn what being led of the Lord really is.

With human teaching there is a degradation in transferring what is taught.

How can we learn the truth?

• One can search for answers for a life time and never find them.

• The Holy Spirit was sent to teach all things.

• The entire earth knows about the troubles it is in.

For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s shall save it.

For the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope.

that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.

But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.

• It’s a giving up of yourself, who are you going to be?

• We do research, Father show me.

• You cannot judge yesterday’s achievements based on today’s revelations

• Take on the Holy Spirit, and let Him lead us.

Learning anything from a human stand point will lead to futility, only learning via the Holy Spirit is there hope for this earth.

Everything we know we were taught, whether right or wrong.

Young people are very smart and observant; aware.

They want to learn from those who love what is being taught.

• Introduce the children to everyday life and the fun of learning.

• Show them the “how to” specifically as you would like.

• Make learning fun and create a closer relationship together.

You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.

Train a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.

He who withholds his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him diligently.

• I taught them how to find a book about exercise.

• I taught them how to find their ways into the library.

• After that first lesson, the parents came to me, thanking me because the children were hungry to read the bible'

The relationship created between a child and their parents in doing things together is priceless, the children will remember these lessons for a lifetime.

We have our ideas of what to pray, but is it what God wants?

Prayer is not begging to God for something, it is asking for His will.

• Lord, create in me a clean heart.

• We are here because someone prayed for us.

• Praying in tongues is allowing the Holy Spirit to speak/pray.

• The Holy Spirit knows the mind/heart of God.

• It is not my will, but Thy will be done.

“Pray, then, in this way: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Encouragement to pray.

Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the good and right way.

For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding.

I thank God, I speak in tongues more than you all;

Therefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak in tongues.

Elijah prays for rain.

Daniel prays for 21 days.

• Prayer can be worship.

• I need His love, I need His joy, I need His patience.

• He is the only provider, there is nowhere else to go.

• Let the Holy Spirit in you pray for them and you get out of the way.

• Ask for it, the ability to speak in tongues.

Our prayer is to see God’s will done in a person or situation, not our

will. Show us Your will, Father, in how to pray for these things.

There are many aspects of prayer.

Jesus taught the Disciples how to pray.

What is the prayer of listening?

• The first aspect of prayer is a worship to the Father.

• Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done.

• My maturing is going to come through waiting on God.

• Lord, give me ears to hear.

• What is the will of God for that person we are praying for?

The Disciples prayer (Lord’s prayer)

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Yet those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary.

My soul languishes for Thy salvation; I wait for Thy word.

My eyes fail with longing for Thy word,

Guard your steps as you go to the house of God, and draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know they are doing evil.

Do not be hasty in word or impulsive in thought to bring up a matter therefore let your words be few.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise.

• You’re giving Him the glory right off the bat.

• Let me learn to love as you love.

• There is a lot that God wants to do through prayer.

• We can be in His presence and say one word with an anointing.

1 Thessalonians 5:17 Pray without ceasing;

Our prayer is an expression of our relationship with God our Father.

Honoring and giving Him praise, worship, and giving up of ourselves to hear what He wants to say to us.

Impart the love of the Lord to the Children by your actions.

An act of kindness can be a blessing to the parents as well as the children.

Find ways to bless the children, where are they open?

• Blessing a child can simply be, hey buddy those are really cool shoes you have on.

• You should be aware. In tune with what is happening around these children.

• They are looking at us.

• It's all about openness and how to minister the Lord into someone's life.

But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: For of such is the kingdom of heaven.

“The judgment”

“And whoever receives one such child in My name receives Me;

Jesus blesses the Little Children

Behold, children are a gift of the Lord; the fruit of the womb is a reward

Grandchildren are the crown of old men, and the glory of sons is their fathers.

• Connect people with the knowledge that they can bless children.

• It’s all about openness, and how to use that openness to minister the Lord into someone’s life.

• “Suffer not the little children to come unto me”

We need to minister to the young people to give them a potential experience with God that they would not have had otherwise, had we not been kind to them.

Is salvation a onetime experience?

Everyday is a new day.

He should be fresh and new to us each day.

We have an open door to be new every day

Do not hang on to old experiences

Do not let the past dictate your future

Just like manna, we need the fresh to eat today

Have a relationship with the word

Read the word, speak that word

“Behold, the former things Have come to pass, Now I declare hew things. Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”

Sing to the Lord a new song. Sing His praise from the end of the earth! You who go down to the sea and all that is in it. You islands and those who dwell on them.

“Do not call to mind the former things, Or ponder things of the past.

Behold, I will do something new, Now it will spring forth; Will you not be aware of it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness, Rivers in the desert.”

Philippians 2:12-14

So then, my , just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling;

for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

Do all things without grumbling or disputing;

The parable of the ten virgins

‘Give us this day our daily bread.’

Exodus 16:20 (manna)

But they did not listen to Moses, and some left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with them.

Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you hear His voice,

Do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me, As in the day of trial in the wilderness,

While it is said, “Today if you hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts, as when they provoked Me.”

You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;

being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts.

Christ is our salvation every day.

Each day there is an expansion and a growth

Work out your salvation with fear and trembling

We need a fresh meeting with the Lord, today

If you ride on yesterday’s word, you’re missing it

That is why salvation will never be complete until He appears, and we are like Him.

Salvation is only a beginning experience, as a child grows so do we in the Lord.

Summary:

Are we living a Christian life?

What should I expect?

How do I hear the voice of the Lord, the Holy Spirit?

How did Jesus know to speak only what the Father told Him?

What does hunger have to do with it?

Show Notes:

• What does it mean to be in motion?

• A small child first learns to crawl, then to walk

• Honest faith is putting into action what the Lord shows

you or tells you

• Learn to expect the Holy Spirit to speak to you.

• All of us need an experience with the Lord

• There is nothing in the world worth anything

• God knows the Heart of a man

References:

Matthew 7:21

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the

kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who

is in heaven will enter.”

John 6:38

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but

the will of Him who sent Me.

Romans 12:2

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by

the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will

of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

John 15:10, 15

10. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love;

just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His

love

15. No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know

what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all

things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to

you.

James 2:18, 26

18. But someone may well say, “You have faith and I have

works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show

you my faith by my works.”

26. For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith

without works is dead.

Matthew 25:34-40

“I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink”

Matthew 7:7

“Ask, and keep asking and it will be given to you; seek, and

keep seeking and you will find; knock, and keep knocking and it

will be opened to you.”

1 Samuel 3:1-14

God speaks to Samuel

1 Kings 8:39

Then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive and act

and render to each according to all his ways, whose heart You

know, for You alone know the hearts of all the sons of men,

1 Samuel 16:7

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or

at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for

God sees not as a man sees, for man looks at the outward

appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

Luke 2:41-52

Jesus as a youth in the temple.

49. And He said to them, “Why is it that you were looking for

Me? Did you not know that I had to be in My Father’s house?”

Quotes:

• The principle of being in motion is a huge principle.

• That is the only time I get revelation and I get

understanding is when I am moving

• Just ask the Lord to show you Himself

• It was just the fact of relating to somebody in their need

• Read with an anticipation and an expectation that the Holy

Spirit is going to speak to you

• Pester Him, whatever it takes, till He speaks to you

Take Away:

Jesus said that He only did what He saw the Father doing, only

spoke what He heard the Father speaking. If we are to be like

Him, then we probably should seek to hear what He is saying.

Summary:

Accepting Jesus as our Lord and Savior is only the start, why do we say

that?

There must be a hunger to know Him, to seek Him, to have that

personal relationship with Him on a daily basis.

Show Notes:

• Salvation is the starting gate. Reading, and abiding in His word to

find a further revelation of Him is another step.

• Paul had an initial meeting with Jesus on the road to Damascus,

but in Philippians he says: “That I may know him and the power

of His resurrection.”

• God is Love, and that is to be our expression to this earth.

• Psalms 51 “Create in me a clean heart, oh God.”

• Start where you are and seek the Lord, by opening your heart.

• Ask Him to show you what to do, how to do it. Then do it.

References:

Hebrews 11:6

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to

God must believe that He is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek

Him.

Mark 4:40

And He said to them, “Why are you so timid? How is it that you have

no faith?”

James 4:8a

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.

Matthew 7:26

“And everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does not act upon

them will be like a foolish man, who build his house upon the sand.

Titus 2:13

Looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great

God and Savior, Christ Jesus;

Luke 2:11

For today in the city of David there has been born for you a savior, who

is Christ the Lord.

John 16:13,14

13. “But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes He will guide you into all

the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He

hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.

14. “He shall glorify Me; for He shall take of Mine, and shall disclose it

to you.

1 John 4:7

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone

who loves is born of God and knows God.

Psalms 51

A Psalm of David. A prayer for Pardon.

Luke 8:39

“Return to your house and describe what great things God has done for

you.” And he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city what

great things Jesus had done for him.

Quotes:

• If you are saved, you accept Christ as your savior and Lord, That’s

really the starting gate.

• If you read it (the bible) and you find a revelation of the Lord, you

are reading it right.

• Once you become a Christian your mindset has to change, you

have to love.

• And hey, the scripture jumps off of the page and where does it

land? In my heart.

• Paul knew that there was more to who the Lord was than what

was first experienced on the road to Damascus.

• The Lord knows exactly what is in our hearts.

Takeaway:

To find an honest relationship with God the Father, Jesus the Son, and

the Holy Spirit beyond simple salvation. To know His love for us and

through us.