Publisher's Synopsis
Today many are breaking upon the meat of the word in revelation and in experience. You can tell who they are because they are learning to speak forth the word of Christ from out of their own spirit (which is "not I but Christ in me"). They have learned who they are in Christ and who Christ is in them. They are on frontiers of spirit and Spirit. They discern a difference between Spirit and spirit. They have discovered what great and glorious thing has been birthed within them. They are the spiritual explorers, the spiritual scientists, and the spiritual vanguard. They are the point of the sword and the tip of the arrow. Their attitude is that of children in a secret clubhouse. They dare to go places their parents have told them are too dangerous. They are overcome with curiosity. What is on the other side of that hill, in the attic, the cellar, and buried long and forgotten within that ancient mound? Many established in the old theology fear to tread in these places. They do not want to know. They already know (or think they know). They know all about that far and secret land. But we want to go forward. It is scary... but it is exciting. We are treading dangerous ground... but that is ok. I expect to get bruised, bumped, and even bit! But I am alive... and I will do exploits in the process. We pause... but He is looking back at us and saying: "are you coming or not?" Yes... we are a bit wild eyed ourselves. The Holy Spirit is not always the gentleman we assume Him to be. He has told me things that have scared me. Things I would not share with anyone (up to now) because they surely would say I was over the edge. I recall one day in the early 80s I was in a deep unto drowning study of Psalms and one of the Prophets. Suddenly I had an epiphany. I took a deep breath, pushed back from the table, and whispered "I do love this so much..." Then, in my mind, as clear as my mother's name, the Spirit said something into me that made me question my own sanity. He said: "I am going to change the world for you." He was not saying the world would be changed for believers or Bible students. He was speaking to me personally. That revelation to me was so real that it has stuck with me for over 20 years and continues to live and manifest in my life. He said He was going to change the world so that it suited me. The world would change to match my loves, my desires, my hopes, and my dreams. Something like that is beyond reason and comprehension. But the spirit does not care if things make sense or not. My mind never has been able to wrap itself around it. Yet things began to happen in the world around me and in my own life! I have found that in the last 20 years, the things that I enjoy in my life have developed and become established in modern culture and society. Things I love have become popular and common. A whole industry (and career) has emerged that did not exist before... one that suits me perfectly. It is as if a tailor has come and measured my heart, tailored and stitched together a world that fits me perfectly. The world around me has become a perfect reflection of my heart. The things of my spirit have externalized and become real. That sounds crazy... I know. But there it is. Grasp this if you dare dear saint: Jesus said that those who believe (and not doubt) they have what they say will have those very things they believe and say. Since we all have believed and said the things that we believe... then we can only conclude one of two things: Your life is a manifestation of the things that you have been believing and saying all your life, (the world you exist in today is the externalization of your personal, heart-spoken belief), or Your life is the encroachment of the world system into the vacuous, chaotic-void left by your own doubt and lack of creative belief.
