Topic: This is Our Season
Greetings Sons of God:
Let’s start with this Scripture:
Hosea 6:1-3: Come,
let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath
smitten, and he will bind us up. After
two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up and we shall
live in His sight. Then shall we know if
we follow on to know the Lord: His going forth is prepared as the morning; and
He shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the
earth.
This is a cry through the prophet Hosea for Israel to return
to the Lord because of the current state of the nation. This cry is not just for that particular time
period but this is a cry to the sons of God today! Now the Scripture above says
that when we return to the Lord that He will heal us and bind us up
(unify). In addition in the third day He
will raise us up to live in His sight.
This third day is the day of living in the Spirit. Understand this we are resurrected from the
dead and born again for the purpose to live through and by the Spirit:
Acts 17:27,28: That
they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him,
though he be not far from every one of us:
For in Him (Christ) we live, and move and have our being; as certain also
of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Now understand to get to this point or state of being where
we are living completely and solely by the Spirit when we are born again the
Lord begins a process by which He transitions us from living by the soul to
living by the spirit and the major process He uses is the Baptism of Fire or
sufferings or trials and tribulations.
How do we know this:
1 Peter 4:12,13:
Beloved think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try
you as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of
Christ sufferings; that when His glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also
with exceeding joy.
So many people are broken and spiritually discouraged and
because of the times we are living in, may of the sons are crying “Lord where
are you?” We understand that the Lord is
ever with us and through the gift of prophecy and proper apostolic doctrine we
understand the season we are in and see what the Father is doing through the
removal of restraint. However I caution
you not to get concerned so much with what the world is doing because within
that prophecy was this Scripture:
Isaiah 26:20: Come,
my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee; hide
thyself as it were for a little moment, unto the indignation be overpast.
So within our households are we to be learning and allowing
the Father to prepare us for the time that He is ready to present the Sons of
God to the creation. Remember in Romans
8 it speaks of the whole creation groans and travails for the manifestation of
the sons of God. This is our season
now!
This is the day that the Lord is healing, refining and
purging us from the effects of the Fall and being led by our soul to being led
by the Spirit in every moment. God is
eliminating the soulish nature within the sons that prevent them from
manifesting His glory. Our reason for
living is to follow Christ’s path to sonship and manifest His glory to a dying
age. This will require that our hearts
are fully driven to be completely obedient to Him.
God is going to accomplish this work within us on this side
of the veil of death. It is important to
point this out for a very crucial reason:
Hebrews 11:39-Hebrews 12:1: And these all, having obtained a
good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some
better thing for us. That they without us should not be made perfect. Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about
with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin
which doth so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that is set
before us,
There are those who have gone on before us in the
faith. But when you read the 40th
verse of Hebrews 11 it says they without us should not be made perfect. There is so much in just that statement but
we will revisit it later. The church, the House of God is a unified family even
though there are those who are in heaven and those sons on the earth but here
it says that the sons in Heaven, the Cloud of Witnesses as they are called
should not be made perfect without us.
They are yearning and cheering us on to finish the race so that they are
made perfect also. That is a thought
huh? Just because you go to Heaven does
not mean that there is not still a maturing process. They are calling on us to lay aside every
weight and sin that is a stumbling block in the race and path to sonship.
The entire creation is waiting, the Cloud of Witnesses are
cheering us on to finish the race. Will you answer the call of God on your
life.
Peace, Love and Grace,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
