Unless we desire knowledge, He will never enlighten us. This is the reason too many people do not get much understanding of truth. It wasn't until God saw a real, burning desire in our Heart to understand the Revelation message, so we could teach it, that He gave it to us. Too many are just sitting around expecting things to drop on them; it doesn't happen that way. God moves according to the power that worketh in us. This is what is gauging it: the power of prayer, the deep desire, and the power of faith. Unless we desire knowledge, we won't be enlightened. Unless we really desire heart purity, we'll never find it. If we want to carry some wrong attitudes around in our heart, we can carry them to our death. We're not going to get heart purity unless we want to be pure. It is according to the power that worketh in us. We have to desire pardon in order for God to pardon us. We must have a deep desire for spiritual strength for God to strengthen us.

His communications will he according to our receptivity. Jesus taught it this way. "According to your faith be it unto you" (Matthew 9:29) -- according to the power that worketh within us. We are just as spiritual as we really want to be. We can blame it on this, that, or the other; but the truth of the matter is, we are just as spiritual as we want to be. Jesus said, "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled" (Matthew 5:6). All this mighty, abundant, exceeding power worketh according to our receptivity.

It is just as an indolent farmer who limits the work of nature. He has a farm, which could produce 225 bushels of corn per acre, but he is indolent. The harvest time goes by, and he doesn't even get 22point5 bushel, when he could have had 225 bushels per acre.

That is the way God is looking at us today. God could fill our church building. God could save enough people so that there would have to be extra chairs set out. God's thoughts are: that every honest, unsaved individual in our community would be won to Him and be saved. God's thoughts are that every one of His children in Babylonian captivity (false religion and/or religious confusion), in the multiplicity of religious works, be called out and brought back to Zion (a spiritual mountain -- a high and lifted up spiritual level) to the unity of the body of Christ, to the Church that Jesus built. These are God's thoughts, and He is able to do it.

Matthew 13:58 tells us that He could not do many mighty works in His own country because of unbelief. We have preached quite a while on God's ability, but God's ability is all determined by the power that worketh in us. We're not preaching to make us feel bad; We're trying to widen our vision. We're trying to get our eyes anointed in a greater way, trying to get us to look up, instead of looking around. See, the devil's first move is to get us to look around, and then he will get us to look down. Everybody who looks around very much, soon looks down. When we start looking down, we become defeated and discouraged, and it won't be long until "we're out"!

God's saying, "Look up! I'm still God. I'm still on the throne. My power's not diminished. We love the Church as much today as we ever did. We want the Church to be just as glorious in 200? as she was in her best year."
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