‘BECOME AS THE FATHER IS’

 

You can have a relationship with God but not have a relationship with the Holy Spirit, or have a relationship with the Spirit and not have a relationship with the Son or the other way around.

[John 14:1-20]

We have one God and not many gods, yet you can fall in love with a certain behavior of God. When we speak of the Father we are speaking of a certain character that He portrays. Remember, Jesus also said “I and the Father are one…” — this shows that the Father has many manifestations He portrays. In all that, God is not all His manifestations.

So many people worship what they do not know, people had a relationship with a certain behavior but when it comes to God, they do not know Him.

In John 14 Jesus speaks as though He is not the Father yet He and the Father are one. It is possible to fall in love with the Way while you do not know the Life. You can fall in love with a certain behavior of God while you do not know Him because God takes forms according to how He is needed.

When a Father is needed He becomes a Father, when the Holy Spirit is needed He becomes the Holy Spirit, and when the Word/the Son is needed He becomes just that. Therefore, we cannot go and contain Him in a certain aspect.

It is the same as knowing me as a preacher while you do not know me out of the pulpit, someone can love the person in the pulpit and not like the person they know in counseling. Some people love God as the Father and not as the Son, they worship what they do not know because if they truly knew who God is they would not worship what they measure with their minds.

Allow God to come as He is, do not measure God with your mind, hence the Bible says what no man has comprehended. Just allow God to be who He is. Many have settled with what they know and they want to worship God in that.

Many have limited God to the Son in a way that it has become difficult for them to know the Father. This means if you had a relationship with a certain behavior it means that you have known that behavior of God. As Jesus spoke to Thomas if it was with someone he would say that Jesus never introduced Himself as the Father.

God is the Word and you need to know Him in His fullness, you need to know the manifold Word that He is. That is why it is difficult for people to worship God in His fullness, it is because they do not know Him. That is why you can find a worshipper being interested in only worshipping God, a scholar being interested in only the knowledge of preachings. This is because they haven’t received God in His fullness which is why they can’t receive the other form of Him.

Fall in love with Him in the worship room so that you can know Him in the pulpit, know Him as He is not what you have fallen in love with. Whatever that has attracted you to God is actually in God so you need to go deep in Him.

People choose which sections to go to when they go to the holy of holies. We are supposed to know every side of God. When Jesus said to the Samaritan woman, “you do not know who you are worshipping…” — this showed that the Samaritans knew a part of God and not His wholeness.

There is someone who knows God in healing yet He doesn’t know Him in rebuke. As a result, they get offended when they are rebuked because they don’t know God in His fullness.

Just like a boy who wants to date a girl, you find there is a certain part he likes about the girl and the other that he doesn’t like about her. When it comes to being responsible for the girl or having to maintain her, he doesn’t want that — boyfriends never want to sit the whole time looking at their girlfriends.

Some people do that to God, they just want to stand in a corner for two hours with Him. They want God in certain areas and not in all areas. They want a relationship where they can tap in and out. They don’t want commitment, some people know the blessing side of God, they know the soft side of God yet they don’t want to know the rebuking Father. People choose which side they want to know of God and that is why they failed to see Him in all areas.

How long must I be with you for you to see that when you have seen Me you have seen the Father? Bible tells us that the son rejoices in rebuke, now how will the son rejoice in rebuke if he has not met the Father who rebukes?

The son doesn’t rejoice in behavior but he rejoices in the person. What will happen if God shuts all the doors of heaven and you find that there are no more miracles and His mighty power is not seen anymore. Would you still love God for who He is and not for what He does?

What would happen if you lose everything and nothing seems to go your way? Would you still see God as you see Him now? Are you in love with God or with a certain behavior that He portrays before you?

People worship the God whom they do not know because if they knew, they would rejoice even in their rebukes, they would know that it is God doing it in the worship room.

Prayer is not speaking in tongues for 2 hours, it is being in the Spirit — It is constant communication with the Lord. When you are in prayer, whatever you do, where ever you go, you become in constant communication with Him. The Word needs to be active in you every time. Not only in time of intercession or of fellowship. He needs to be active in you when you are watching TV when you are sleeping or busy with your housing duties, or even at work.

There is no way that when you are a son you can be alone because at all times the Father is with you in constant communication. You need to be with God to a point that you can’t differentiate between any form He portrays.

The way we must walk with God should reach a point where there is no difference between us and the voice of God. It should be that whenever we speak people should be confused because of who they think we are, only because we spend too much time in God that we end up becoming one with Him.

Some people are so holy at the pulpit but not so holy when they are walking in the street, and this is because they are not so convicted to God, they are not one with Him in mind. They do not know Him the way they are supposed to. They know the mountain, they know the temple, they know intersession but they do not know the Master who is supposed to be worshipped.

How long must I be with you for you to know that I and the Father are one? As a Christian, you should know that God is bigger than what you have limited Him to be. Churches are filled with people who do not know God. As it is Sunday, everyone is at church, including the people that do not know who God is — they are all in church.

You come now and raise your hands but God says you have rejected Me in your thoughts when I was one with you, connected to you in your mind and your heart. I spoke and you rejected Me and you come on Sunday and you worship what you have rejected. This is only because you have fallen in love with a certain behavior.

The God that I know is a lamp unto my feet, it means everywhere I go He leads my steps and the light will continue shining. Which God are you calling to, which God are you calling ‘My Father’ because there are people who have fallen in love with a certain part of God and not God Himself?

The relationship that He wants with you is bigger than what you are giving Him. God wants marriage but you are giving Him dating. God wants commitment, He wants to do everything with you, He does not want to be with you for a certain time and go but He wants commitment. He wants to be seen with you everywhere you go.

Have you ever seen people who have been dating for years yet when it is time for them to be in one house as a couple you find it’s havoc? You find that these people can’t live together, only because they never knew each other.

This happens with many people; you find that as soon as God reveals Himself to you, you start to drawback because you can’t accept God as He is. You like the way He does things, you just like worshiping Him for a few hours but God wants more than that. He wants prayer without ceasing. God wants a serious relationship with you, He does not want 2 hours intercession.

You would hear people sing ‘we sleep with Him, we wake up with Him, we stay with Him, we walk with Him because His love is amazing’ but that was never the case. People entered the atmosphere and fell in love with the atmosphere and not with the God who creates the atmosphere. A person who loves the atmosphere is like a person who is attracted by the smell of food without tasting it and as soon as they taste the food they are quick to say they don’t want that.

Salvation is not an atmosphere. It is deeper than going to church, it is deeper than praise and worship. It is more real that is why everything can stop but God can’t stop. Prophecies and singing will stop but the Word will always remain.

When it says that the Word will remain it means that everything will be found in the Word. People can come and take worship out of the Word and fall in love with worship while they leave the Word but it shouldn’t be like that, we ought to love everything.

Everything that stops is everything that is not watered by the Word. Eat the tree that is watered by the Word do not eat the fruits of the tree you do not know. Our relationship with God should not be like the fruits we eat from the market because God always takes us back to the garden for us to see the tree of the fruits we eat.

With God, you eat the fruit while you are sitting under its shadow. Having leaves does not mean that you have a tree, because the wind can blow the leaves your way even though you do not know where they come from. So you need to be exactly where the leaves and the trees come from. You can know the leaves of a tree and the fruits of a tree but do you know the stem and the roots of the tree.

God, we are the branches, not the leaves and the fruits, the minute you are a branch it means you are connected to the stem. You can be a fruit while you do not know the tree and the stem. Fruits can be everywhere they can be picked up and be placed in baskets and be sold, but you can’t go and look at the basket and say this is a tree. As sons we need to have the blood of Jesus running through our veins, we need to be connected to the tree. We are to have a relationship with God. We ought to be the person who God is.

[John 4: 7-14]

Jacob has always been drawing water from the well and going back. We still have people like that who draw water and go back to themselves. They leave the water just there, they don’t become the well.

Jesus said whoever believes in Me, out of their belly shall flow rivers of living water, some people say they believe yet out of their bellies they still have wells. Some people have fruits yet they are not connected to the tree and when people see them they call them powerful, because they do not know that these people only carry baskets full of fruits.

The woman asked Jesus what are you going to use to draw the water with because you have no basket? She expected Jesus to have a certain way to get the water since they always had ways to draw water. But as soon as she left the bucket it shows that she had become the water from the well. She was ready for the well to spring out from her. Hence when she left she went to the streets to feed others as well.

When did Jesus ask, “Peter do you love Me?” It was because Peter has been drawing from Jesus for long without feeding. You need to drink and feed others.

The church in Revelation had become one with the Groom, that is why she said “come” as she heard the Word say come to her. We ought to be one with the Father and let the springs flow from within us.

YESHUA; A CITY ON A HILL, THE LIGHT THAT CANNOT BE HIDDEN