If you had tickets, I am sure you used them! If not, with most of America you had a TV view of the Superbowl. I know it is a little late for America’s great game, however, there is another super bowl that the Lord is very interested in…..
He is the Winning Team, by Himself and yet, we get the benefits! We happen to win because of His grace! Hey, He called us to be His! How awesome is that! That is why we watch the Super Bowl, right? We watch to see who the best team of the year is????? What about eternity with the Lord King Jesus Christ won all for us……I want to be on the winning team, as everyone does, right? Let us make sure we are…… Let us make sure we know Him and He knows what house we are from…..
We hear a lot of songs of longing to go behind the veil. I also hear songs of the Holy Spirit requesting us to- come up here. Well, by our faith, we have entered into heaven’s realm and we are seated in heavenly places…… Do you think that there is more available? Let us think about what the Lord’s view of the Super Bowl……
Behind the veil there is a huge super bowl, the throne of God……The cost is greater and the rewards are higher than we can think or imagine. The vessels that the King chooses to use are within His touch and voice…..He uses His vessels by His power, not theirs….. His and His alone, He will always get the glory…. not man or woman, infact He will use the weakest on the team or army because the power will be of Him not mans.
There seems to be layers of discerning to uncover as we climb the steps of the Lord’s leading regarding our journey. When we set out on our race to go higher, we go deeper first…. The roots have to be strongly grounded in the Word. In the grounding process, we are put through the potters wheel as He makes us complete as a vessel useful in His hands. This has been His desire from the foundation of the world.
Our journey is as wide as it is long, in fact it is forever and everlasting to know the Lord and all He has prepared for us because of His great love.
Do we dare to ask to go behind the veil deeper with the Holy Spirit ….. Will we bear the cost of going deep? Sometimes the journey is so deep we may feel we are drowning? It may even seem that there is no help but God’s that will get us through alive. Exactly!
He is smiling as His plan is being established in our lives for His purpose and His love…… He is God and we are not. He is our Savior and we can’t even save a gnat from death! We learn our utter dependence on the One who was and is and forever will be. This is the way of Lord, He leads us through the wilderness as He did with Israel. He leads us through the wilderness so we may enter in to His Land fully- Him….. The Lord is full of far distances! His ways are magnificent!
Behind the veil, the work of the Lord’s Spirit is done in secret…. Yup, the secret place of the Most High. The sufferings of the Lord as well as the pleasure of the fellowship with Him….. Friends share everything, right? Husband and wife share everything, right? So our Lord desires that with us, right?
Some of the stuff we share already has been crucified on the cross. He can not share that….. We will worship Him in Spirit and truth. It is His job to tell us by that action or thought or word, we left the abiding in Him to reign in our carnal flesh. It has to die as He did on the cross…… Our flesh now has to be torn so the room is there for the resurrection power of Christ to dwell. He is working on His bowl!
Friends have to be proven trustworthy, as the Lord does with us….. He is determined to make us One with the Father, the Son and by the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit hands out the tickets to those who mean business with the Lord. If we are seeking His face….. the ticket will be presented to us… guaranteed…. The Holy Spirit is about His business…..Maybe He hands them to all, but some do not realize they have been offered because other offers came in along side….. Some maybe picked another ticket instead of the ticket of the high calling of God in the Lord Jesus Christ.
The word super in Strong’s concordance is to super abound;- abound much more, exceeding. The word bowl in Strong’s concordance is a sacrificial basin, a dish for holding blood or wine, a cup of oil, to depress, a basin as in deepened out, something advanced or deep.
Well, within the veil, the Holy Spirit is busy deepening us out through dark and hard adversities so that we may then carry the Testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ. The walk of faith by night…. not by sight!
We will hold super abounding oil representing the Holy Spirit and the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Perfect Sacrifice from God for God, as we are the recipients. Our love will be squeezed out as wine and our obedience to holiness as a sweet smelling aroma poured forth before the Lord.
The Holy Spirit is offering all to be a vessel or bowl for and unto the Lord…. If we are Christians, we will be vessels unto to the Lord. But as Paul, the Apostle, states in 2 Timothy 2 : 20-22, But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor.
Therefore if any one cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.
Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
This is an opportunity to get off the sidelines and get into the game or the battle for the Lord today….. We have been picked for His team or army, if you will…… Will we use our Super Bowl tickets from the Holy Spirit, or will the tickets be found lost in our junk drawer because we did not hold His offer as a treasure. A treasure work offered from the Father’s heart to be His.
He offers all to get behind the curtain and let His secret work begin…..We start at the bottom of the cross in the dirt, as we see the Lord on the cross as He suffered for us. But as we grow in the Lord, we climb the cross of the Lord, as the Holy Spirit holds our hands and feeble hearts…. We climb the cross because we are being deepened by the Spirit to be holy and separate unto Him, so that we may be filled with His Resurrection power. His body is alive and living by the power of God.
So what are we going to do with our Super Bowl tickets? Save them for next year, so that they get lost in the junk drawer or…hand them in with shaking hands and tender hearts, saying I do not understand all that lays before me, Lord….. but I trust you. Your will be done, I know if I die, I will arise by Your love, which is You.
Selah~ Bowl spiritually means our heart! ~ Selah
Let is be said by the Lord of us- Your fruit is found in Me. Who is wise? Let him understand these things. Who is prudent? Let him know them. For the ways of the Lord are right; The righteous walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them, Hosea 14:8-9.
