Continuing with My testimony of darkness to light: “A place for you.”

Many years ago and upon more than one occasion the Holy Spirit of God spoke to me saying that He had, “a place for me.” The first time it was through a man I believed to be a prophet. It was at a time in my life when I wanted to buy a home. I felt we needed to because of how much we were paying for rent and therefore purchasing someone else’s home for them. I was told by a realtor that my hope of owning a home wasn’t realistic based upon our income. So, because of the teaching’s I embraced at the time and the darkness in my mind I believed that God was saying that HE had a place for me. A literal house. The doctrines/teachings I believed at the time were that God’s Word was specific to me and my needs. And that God wanted me to have the very desires of my heart whatever they may be. I also embrace the teachings that my natural financial limitations were nothing for God all I needed was faith (and of course to continue to give to the ministry). Several years later we did indeed buy our home, we were not a part of that ministry any longer and I did not remember His Word.

While praying in the backyard of our own home nearly seven or so years later God spoke to me again by His Spirit saying that He had, “a place for me.” I rejoiced thinking God still has a place a plan for me. You see, even though I left the actual ministry Genesis, I took all the teachings I had embraced within me. (That’s what leaven does, it leavens the whole lump, the error didn’t leave just because I left) I actually thought somewhere deep inside me that God had forgotten about me. I began to look for a “church” to submit myself and to find the place that God had promised me. Again, because that was the teaching I embraced and believed.

I am a preacher and teacher. That’s just who I am. I thought that the gift that God gave me would make a way for me. (and I had thoughts about what that means too, based upon teachings) I truly believed that I would go somewhere and that God would reveal that this was “the place for me.” And not only would I know it but that man in charge would know it as well. Right?

However, being a part of Genesis taught me well. I learned what I would not participate in. Simple. I would not gather or join myself to anything that compromised the Word of God in truth at all! And yes, I judged. I judged every place I went based upon what I knew of God’s Word. Honestly, mostly everywhere I went were variations of the same thing I left. From San Diego to Orange County I looked for “a place for me.”  It’s difficult to express in words the emotions of turmoil, hope, despair, desire, fear and faith of being in darkness, which is simply not knowing. Believing God is true to His Word and yet understanding of what His Word means is obscure.

Yet, I continued to seek God. And I continued to gather with like believers as we searched His Word to find Him. I stopped looking for “a place for me” and just looked for Him. And I have found Him! As I learn of Him, I walk in Him. What He tells me in the dark, I speak in the light, and what I hear in the ear, I preach on the housetops.

Today He revealed “the place for me.” The promise He made when He said, “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.“ I no longer looked for this place and actually haven't given it any thought. Today, He reveals!

The place He prepared for me is IN Him. A place IN His body, the church. A place where He has by His blood given me entrance and access to the Father. A place where I belong and am loved by Him. A place where I am fulfilled and have peace.  It’s IN Him and has been the entire time.

Because of the darkness in me from the doctrines/teachings I embraced I looked for the promise of God outside of God. Some may think how foolish of me. You are right in your judgment.

Even though I have begun to walk in the light of His Word, Jesus, it wasn’t until today that He spoke again, “a place for you.” However, this time the eyes of my understanding were enlighten. I see and I understand! I rejoice!

He has a place for everyone of us IN Him if we are His. The place is not in a building called the church, it’s not in some man’s organization called the church, it’s not in man’s traditions and/or rituals, it’s not in some one’s determination of who we  are or what we should be, it’s IN Him. IN His body that He named the church where He is the head and He sets all the members, each one of them IN the body just as He pleases!

Definition:

IN - is used as a function word to indicate inclusion, location, or position within limits

used as a function word to indicate means, medium, or instrumentality

used as a function word to indicate limitation, qualification, or circumstance

          used as a function word to indicate purpose