The Gathering On The Rock

Today, we find that 'Blindness is expelled by Light!' Saul thought he was fully serving Yahweh. He soon found that there was a conflict between his knowledge of Yaweh and his experience of Yaweh's presence.

We begin this week by looking at the fact that "Confusion is rooted in Unlearning!" Peter had a lot to unlearn when the sheet was lowered from Heaven with all 'non-kosher' food. He was then commanded to eat; he was respectful but resistant.

We look at the story of Nicodemus, who came by night to talk with the Master. All his training in the ways of the law did not prepare him for an encounter with a God bringing in a New Way!

Today, we see that 'Newness of Life' in the new covenant means a thorough change from visitation to habitation, from law to grace, from behavioral focus to learning our true identity.

The Gospels are as much about unlearning as they are about anything. When we, His people, do not set our minds on things above, we automatically default back to the Earthly way of thinking!

We begin this month's study by looking at a new way of relating to the Father was introduced by His son Yeshua. It is important to understand that Yeshua came to move His people from a visitational culture to a place of abiding in Him and He in them, which is a Habitational lifestyle!

Father God loves it when we 'open our hearts' to Him. The Father's affection is high for us. Father God is happy to show us Himself, His kingdom and our place in it.

The Father loves the journey. It is where our story and His become one. In this process of becoming one, we are taken into the Father's presence, His fulness, and His abundance.

We must come aside and enquire of the Lord in this world of chaos and confusion. This makes it hard to hear the Lord when He speaks to us.

Today, we find that 'There is no lasting breakthrough without the follow-through of establishing a new lifestyle!' After you have seen the change, you must follow through to a new lifestyle.

We conclude this week with something that many do not like to face, and that is tension. But as we see in today's teaching, "Tension means Growth!" It is important to understand that the tension between the Old and the New will bring tension, But understand that "Tension does not mean that something is Wrong!" On the contrary, everything could be just right in your spiritual growth.

Our battle is between the "Memories/Habits of the Old Man and the Mind of the Christ [the New Man]!" We must set our minds on a higher way of thinking. Your old way, resist the new way. It resists a new identity, a different possibility among other things of the Spirit.

Our "Natural Mind" must change. In order for the natural mind to change it has to see something different. First, we put off the old; then we are freed to receive the mind of Christ.

In our lesson today, we find that the Godhead relates to our "New Man!" When we accepted Christ as our Lord, we were forever hidden in Christ in The Father. What this means is that the Father relates to us through His Son, and we relate to Him from our position in Christ.

Today, we look at the fact that we must stay focused on "Things Above!" As we journey with a new vision of the Kingdom, every situation provides an opportunity to renew our way of perceiving things. In Christ, our new man receives the power to focus our mind on things above, not on the things on Earth.

People with a natural mindset are always calling Christ down into their weakness, rather than seeing that Christ is elevating them into His strength and power!

When you change the way you see yourself and see the way the Godhead sees you, it changes your way of thinking and creates a new language of agreement in your walk of Faith.

God wants Moses to know His strength and if he would be shown what He was called to do. God makes Moses a god to Pharaoh and Aaron, Moses' prophet.

Moses wanted God to see him as he saw himself and walk with him as he saw himself. Fortunately for Moses, the Godhead can only see him and us one way. Not who we are without Him; instead, who we can be with Him.

The man who was in a religious rage against the Church, takes on a gentile name and now is seeking to help the ones he sought to destroy. By growing in their knowledge of Christ. With a vision change, a judgmental, hate-filled man became the apostle of Love and Grace.

When we look at Saul, we see a man who was a blind religious zealot. He had a vision that it was ok to persecute and kill those who saw God in a different way from himself. But sitting in blindness for three days allowed him the time to think differently and repent of his way of thinking!

The earth must adjust to Heaven and its spiritual laws. The law of love, the law of liberty, and the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus, to begin with. In Heaven, everything is based on relationship, trust, faith, and the truth of the Godhead's unchanging nature, to name a few.

When we get the Father's way of seeing, then it will change our way of seeing, thinking, speaking, and, most importantly, acting. Because we have been made in the image and likeness of God, He is constantly working on changing these four areas of our lives to line up with His own.

Since the Father is the creator of all things, He has a unique perspective about everything in our lives.

Now, back with the apostles, Peter must explain his acts in going to the Gentiles. The apostles rejoice that the same Spirit that fell on them has fallen on the Gentiles. We see that Peter's one simple act of coming when Jesus said come would lead to a vision change in Peter that took him to another lever in the Spirit and into the history books of the Church.