Sweat

generally, i study many things in the Word and don't always either document it here, or...because i have a little one in the house who changes frequently, i lack the time to be able to get on here and actually write it all out. i just pray that no matter what, i am doing the will of the Lord and not my own. i must admit that recently i have fallen into "works" a bit, without even realizing it. i had gotten to where i felt as though if i was not producing some bible study for others to read everyday, that i was not doing what God had called me to do. little did i know that hardly anyone ever reads this thing anyhow, so i am returning to what i began doing in the beginning with this blog...i'm doing this to help me...if it helps someone else along the way, great. if not...at least it is something that helps me understand what i am studying a little better.

the last few days the Lord has awakened me & my family about 4am instead of 4:30...not really been making me all that happy to tell the truth, but nevertheless, i wrote a bit last night about "isn't anyone hungry," and it spoke about me feeling like i am full of the Word, waiting to be able to share it, watching and seeing those that are headed for hell (this is not my own judgement, but rather from studying the Word, it has been revealed to me that if folks are not yielding and being led by the Spirit of God on a daily basis, allowing Him to have His way in their lives...they are not abiding in Him, therefore, not receiving life eternally for their soul.) He;'s coming back for a bride that has made herself ready, meaning, she watches and waits for Him, constantly! and the truth is, with anything that i write, or read, or have studied, anything that God reveals to me...i am responsible for eating of myself, before i serve it to others. so with that said, hence what was written last night, i had to examine myself and say, "am i even hungry for God, or am i just going through the motions...if i am going through the motions, my victoriousness in Christ is in jeopardy.

with that shared...i sat down, while listening to Sonlife Radio online, (which is roundtable discussion of the Word of God), when i was first studying the words, "thirsty, hungry," and somehow stumbled upon the punishment that God gave man when he fell, and decided to look up the word, "sweat." what i found was stinkin' awesome, actually!

these were the results that i found:

Gen 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou [art], and unto dust shalt thou return.

Luk 22:44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

this find is actually one that can only be revealed to the soul of one that is regenerated. meaning, if you have not actually been born again, truly born again in your heart, not just what you profess, you will understand this. if you do not understand this, either i am a bad teacher, or you need the Holy Spirit in order for it to be revealed to you...because to those whom are not saved, we speak mysteries.

anyhow, the scripture in Genesis is stating things under the surface of words that i had never seen before. God tells Adam that by the sweat of his face he'll eat bread...what he is saying is several things here.

1. you're not getting the physical and spiritual nourishment that you were originally automatically provided with by Me. Now, you are not able to eat from the Tree of Life anymore. Since you can't eat from the Tree of Life anymore, you are no longer alive forever, you have died. Whether we realize it or not, the moment we came into this present world, out of the belly of our mother's, and breathed our first breath, we started dying, not living. our mortal bodies are well on their ways to the grave...the ground pulls at our feet, so to speak.

2. another thing the Lord is saying in this first scripture is that even though we are starving in our inward man, (the man that lives, desiring and seeking, desperately needing God to fulfill him and have fellowship with him), we instead will feed our flesh and are no longer able to eat and have eternal life, except we receive it directly from God. we are basically like little newborn birdies in a nest, totally dependent upon the Lord to feed us, lest we die...and stay dead spiritually forever.

the second scripture is from Christ's prayer in the garden of Gathsemane, where He prays for the Father's will to be done. He's about to go and die on the Cross for us, knowing that this is coming...Him being fully God, but also fully man, He is feeling the agony that we feel in doing the Will of the Father. In order for US to do the Will of the Father, we have to recall when we were dead with Christ, our dreams, abilities, and lives were buried along with our sins, our old man dead with Him. Meaning, to do God's will, we have to die, not live. which lines up with with the first scripture in our dependence upon Christ to feed us what we need to live spiritually and allow His Will to be done in us and through us. (not a popular message, is it). Here is the awesome part of the entire scripture here, and what the Lord so graciously revealed to me:

1. He prays in agony to do the Father's Will, He did this for us...and is aquainted with the difficulty we struggle with in dying to ourselves.

2. There is a foretelling of God's redemption plan encoded here in scripture. See, we have always had to, even since the fall work by the sweat of our brow, only to accomplish our own will...therefore eventually dying in these mortal bodies, and returning to the dust that we were made from. But Christ, who IS ETERNITY masked with flesh, is showing by the sweating of BLOOD, that He will redeem us by His Precious Blood.

3. To follow up on the 2nd thought here, is...God's redemption plan is by the Blood of the Lamb, which Jesus is the Lamb of God, come to take away the sin of the world. we come from dirt, we are dust...which is the evidence of death..dust is a type of death which comes from sin. (i feel like i am explaining this poorly, but nevertheless, the Lord can reveal it to you like He has me). But as He prayed to do the Father's Will, in great anguish, He sweat Blood, and as His Blood hit the ground, God was trying to show us that He has made a Way to bring us back to where we were before the fall of man...as though we had never sinned, therefore taking away all sin we have committed, restoring us unto God in the form that we were, (through Jesus Christ and what He has done for us at the Cross & our reception of this in our own lives), we can daily take up His benefits as we go through our daily lives on this road to Heaven.

It may mean nothing to the reader, and it's so difficult to explain things in English words, it's like when God reveals something to you by His Spirit, there really are no real words for, (those who have the Holy Ghost understand what i mean), yet...God can quicken your spirit just like He did mine and reveal it to you as well, which i pray He does, cause it was a blessing to me!