My attention today was drawn to the fact that a whole lot of
Kingdom-minded believers are being pummeled by many challenges and problems.
A lot of us are facing formidable challenges. Many of us are
facing a conspiracy of thousands of little issues that, taken together,
threaten to be overwhelming. Some among us are facing victory that is so
different than we expected, that is more complicated than we were expecting
that it works as a weapon against our peace, breaking our focus. Some of us are
feeling overwhelmed, but when we’re asked, we have a hard time identifying what
is overwhelming us.
And as I saw that, I realized that it was on purpose: this
is for a purpose. This is strategic. There is purpose for this. It’s not Father’s
purpose, but the conspiracy of distractions is the enemy working overtime to
distract us.
Father brought my attention to Second Kings:
2 Kings chapter 2:
“When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me,
what can I do for you before I am taken from you?”
“Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,” Elisha
replied.
“You have asked a difficult thing,” Elijah said, “yet if you
see me when I am taken from you, it will be yours—otherwise, it will not.”

Elisha then picked up Elijah’s cloak that had fallen from
him and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan . He took the cloak that
had fallen from Elijah and struck the water with it. “Where now is the Lord,
the God of Elijah?” he asked. When he struck the water, it divided to the right
and to the left, and he crossed over.”
As I saw this, I heard Father say, “I’m watching to see if
you can be distracted, or if you’ll keep your eyes on the prize in the midst of
all of the distractions.” We can’t be overcomers without overcoming, and Father
really wants us to learn to overcome.
If we can be distracted, even by amazing things like “a
chariot of fire and horses of fire,” then we aren’t ready for the double
portion anointing. We will still have the testimony of having seen, possibly
even ridden in a chariot of fire, and that’s not nothing! But we’ll miss the
bigger prize that comes from keeping our focus where it ought to be.
Some of us have not even recognized, not remembered our
heart crying out, “Let me inherit a double portion!” and some of us may
never have gotten to the point of using words. But that cry really is in your heart.
May I say this to you: Father heard that cry, and it made
his heart skip a beat to hear it! This is HIS heart’s desire, children that
want more of him, more of his anointing, more of his ways! So it is with giddy
joy that He is permitting the distractions: we really have asked a difficult
thing, a thing that is only given to overcomers, and so he is giving us
opportunity to overcome.
All that is hard to see, but the other part is more hidden. Father
stands back and watches, biting his lip, to see if we’ll maintain our focus, to
see if we’ll look past the distractions and the discouragements and see the
thing he’s doing. But all the while, his other hand is reaching around behind
us, touching us, pointing, drawing our attention, even occasionally grabbing
our head and pointing it where we need to be looking. He’s doing everything in
his formidable power to keep our attention where it needs to be in order that
he can have the joy of giving us the double, the triple portion, beyond
everything that our heroes and forerunners have had.
He really wants to have a bride that is not completely distracted by the trials, by the conspiracy of distractions, by the complications and nattering voices. He will have a bride that will overcome, and he wants you.
He really wants to have a bride that is not completely distracted by the trials, by the conspiracy of distractions, by the complications and nattering voices. He will have a bride that will overcome, and he wants you.
He’s conspiring, conspiring in favor of the cry of your
heart.
1 comment:
right word in the right season. This is exactly it for me. Thanks for sharing this!
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