Victory Through Revelation
This morning I was watching Joyce Meyer’s TV broadcast and the Lord used it to confirm something He’s been showing me repeatedly the past few months, which is that there’s a huge difference between knowing something and having a divine revelation about it. What happened to me yesterday is something I’m sure most of us have experienced from time to time, and that’s when we’ve read a particular verse of scripture over and over again, and then one day we read it and it seems to just come alive and have a whole new meaning, which we can’t believe we ever missed before! That’s why it is so important to keep reading the Bible over and over again, because that’s the only way we’ll ever get the full revelation found in God’s word, and it’s only through divine revelation that we receive the grace and power of God needed to see us through to the victory we seek in marriage restoration or anything else we’re dealing with.
Last week the Lord demonstrated that to me in a most unforgettable way. I’ve been ministering to a woman for a few months and was impressed with how well she knows the word, but I couldn’t understand why she didn’t seem to have the peace and confidence I thought it should give her. She had made a lot of progress, even to the point of ministering to other women in similar circumstances, and then she seemed to have a major set back last week. That really surprised me and I was even a little discouraged, but the Lord woke me up that night in the wee hours of the morning and told me that she would be made “a new creation”. Since I thought she had been saved for many years (being very involved in her church and knowing the Bible so well), that didn’t make any sense to me, so I reminded the Lord that “a new creation” meant salvation, but He just repeated the same thing again. I have to confess my own disobedience too, because the Lord also told me to get up and send her an email telling her what He had said. Since I email her at work and she was in bed asleep, like I was supposed to be, I reminded the Lord of that and told Him I’d send it in the morning. He told me again to get up and do it right then, but I didn’t listen. Lord, may I never do that again! My disobedience denied her a very special confirmation blessing, which I greatly regret.
The woman called me the next morning between six and seven, which she’s never done before, and she was very upset, broken and crying. She reminds me now that I told her then as I had in several of our earlier conversations that I thought she needed to go back to the beginning, so I guess the Lord had already revealed the truth to me, but I found it too difficult to believe until He gave me that revelation earlier that morning. After spiritual warfare like I’ve rarely experienced before, I was able to lead her to pray the sinner’s prayer and to REALLY make Jesus the Lord of her life. What an awesome experience and what an awesome demonstration that having head knowledge isn’t worth anything unless we have it in our hearts, which is what happens when the Lord gives us the revelation. That’s when we know that we know and NOTHING can convince us otherwise.
Here’s the link to Joyce’s message about knowing that God loves us vs. the revelation that He loves us, I Belong to God and He Loves Me – Part I, which would be very good to listen to if that’s not already a revelation you have the confidence of deep in your heart and soul.