This blog is to get the reader ready
for the next blog:
Jared and I just finished reading a
book called Supernatural Ways of Royalty, by Kris Vallotton and Bill
Johnson, from Bethel Church and Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry.
In the last part of the book they talk about the inheritance we receive and the
inheritance we pass on. Bill expresses the importance of understanding
that it is by inheritance that God wishes to establish each generation to
advance His Kingdom and what that makes us responsible for. When we
receive an inheritance, we are freely getting what someone else paid a price
for. Inheritance makes each generation responsible to both receive and
honor what has been passed on from the previous generation, and then pay their
own price to make it grow so that the next generation starts out ahead of
them. In the book it talks about what constitutes the inheritance of the
Kingdom and what we receive from our royal history and what we are to give
those that follow us.
After God established His covenant
with the people of Israel at Mount Sinai, Moses made this statement: “The
secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed
belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this
law” (Deut. 29:29 NKJV). “Revelations,” or the “things which are
revealed,” is the inheritance of the Kingdom. The importance of
revelation from God’s perspective is so great that the Bible says we perish
without it (see Hos. 4:6). Revelation does not come to makes us smarter
or give us better doctrinal statements. Revelation is first intended to
launch us into divine encounters, where the nature of God is understood and
demonstrated through human experience. If revelation does not lead us to a
divine encounter, it only works to make us more religious and arrogant; because
the nature of knowledge is that it puffs up (see I Corin. 8:1). If we
have knowledge without an encounter, our pride can actually prohibit us from
encountering God.
If revelation is meant to be the
inheritance of the Kingdom, it is clear that God intends for more than
information to be passed on to the next generation. The fruit of
revelation is personal transformation and supernatural demonstration of the
nature of God. Therefore, the inheritance of revelation is the
inheritance of models, heroes who became a revelation of God’s nature, and
testimonies of their teaching and exploits.
Revival always comes through
revivalist, men and women of God who become so gripped by a passion for God’s
kingdom and so surrendered to the King that He commissions them with authority
and power to bring the Kingdom through prophetic revelation and signs and
wonders. They are pioneers and trailblazers, bushwhacking their way into
enemy territory and claiming it for the Kingdom. They are given spikes in
human experience that can be clearly recognized as the fruit of a supernatural
anointing.
Ok, now think of the men and women
who have really impacted your life, your mentors, your spiritual mothers and fathers,
how are you honoring them? Are you
living out what they have taught you? So
many of the movements that began with these great men and women, far from
seeing an increase in power and anointing, have only seen decline. There
are probably a couple of reasons for this. One is that, while the
children of revival may have recognized and applauded the miracles of God which
their fathers demonstrated, they were unwilling to endure the ridicule and
persecution their fathers faced. Another reason is that they failed to
understand the principle of inheritance and the nature of the kingdom. As
a result, they built monuments to the past instead of realizing they had a
responsibility to take it to the next level for the following generation.
It is up to us to take all the godly
things we have been taught by our parents, spiritual parents, mentors and the
people in our daily lives and apply them to our lives and teach the generations
after us. We must learn from those who have gone before us, so we can be
the world changers, one generation at a time.
