The Sealing of the Saints [Part 8]

By

Kiwi S. Kalloo

Establishing people in the Heart of God in Kingdom Worship and Present Truth.

9/3

     Thank God for his grace in revealing His Word. We began to talk about the breast plate of the high priest and the significance of the names written on it. We also started looking at how it represents the nature of God working in us to bring us to himself. We will now look at Manasseh one of the sons of Jacob, one of the tribe of Israel whose name was written on the breast plate that was worn by the high priest who ventured into the holy of holies behind the veil into the presence of the King. When a king enters into a country there is a distinct presence of his supremacy, authority and Kingship that floods the atmosphere.

     When a king enters into a city there is even greater anticipation of his presence, people gather themselves on the streets to show respect and give honor to the King. Because all these people are not trained, and have not been in the presence of the King before, a company of authorities would come to the streets and physically tell the people what they should and should not do when the King is passing by, there would also be signs posted, telling the people how to act and behave in the presence of the King.

     We are today being trained by the authority of God how to act and behave in the presence of the King.

So many of us have become so accustom to our old ways and it’s hard to change. We have a saying "you cannot teach an old dog new trick". Well, we certainly act like dogs sometimes but its time to change that, we have too many actors in the churches and the Christian world. God wants us to be real, loose the false accent, we do not need to put on a false accent to talk with God, we do not need to dress and talk vulgar to get the attention of the brothers or sisters thinking that it will draw us any closer to God because the brother or sister may have a position in the church. God wants us to be real, speak the truth, if we want to impress God, it’s the things that we do in the closet that will impress him.

     Manasseh means "to cause to forget" God wants us to forget those things which are behind and to press toward those things which are before us. We cannot live on yesterday's anointing, we cannot move forward on yesterday's prayer, just as we need to eat physical food for today and the here and now, we need to go to God everyday and receive of Him new manna every day. The food of yesterday does not provide the required nutrition needed for today. We have grown accustomed to microwave and refrigerators for our natural food so we have adapted well to that lifestyle and become microwave and refrigerator Christians. So the preacher tells us to get our lives right with God and we don't like it, we put it on ice. He tells us tells us to come out tomorrow night because we are having a party night, we put that in the microwave.

     We have learned so well how to put stuff on ice and how to microwave it that it has now become a way of life. When the King is coming to our city we get into the mode of honoring the King, we lose our agendas and ideas. We forget about everything else that is happening around us and concentrate on Him. We forget about self. When we come to God and lay our sins before Him, He washes it away and remember them no more according to Isaiah. God wants us to forget our old ways and to put on the new mind of Christ which is after righteousness and truth. Paul said "I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling that is in Christ Jesus" We move forward, not backward.

     We are not to live our lives according to what people say about us but according to what God say about us and the only way we can know what he said is through his Word.

     The thought here is that God sees us as a people who has been blood washed and accepted into the Kingdom. We are no more strangers aliens and bastards but now called sons whereby we cry abba Father. What a privilege, what a revelation, it no longer the sky is the limit but God is the limit and if God is the limit that makes us limitless to God.