APRIL 10
A HIGHWAY IN THE WILDERNESS
OLUBI JOHNSON
Luke 3:4-5 KJV
As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, “Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth..”
God is doing a new thing: making a road, or highway in the wilderness (Isa. 43:19)! The wilderness prophetically and symbolically speaks of the condition of our souls: mind, will and emotions after we get born-again (1Cor. 10:1-5).
When we get born-again, the nature of God, eternal life, living water, is injected into our spirits, causing us to leave ‘Egypt’ where we were in bondage to the sin nature in our spirits.
We are then baptised in water – a type of going through the Red Sea. The subsequent baptism in the Holy Spirit, with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues is a type of having the pillar of cloud and fire.
We also receive daily manna; daily feeding on the Word of God, and water from the Rock, a type of teaching of the Word of God. We receive healing and prosperity, a type of not having one feeble person amongst us (Ps. 105:37), and not having our clothes or shoes to wear out (Dt. 8:4).
However, we are not yet in the Promised Land, a type of having the perfection of the nature, character and power of Christ in our souls and bodies (Col. 1:27-28; 1Thess. 5:23).
So God right now is doing a new thing. He is building a highway in our hearts that will take us from the wilderness of an uncultivated soul (mind, will and emotions), to the Promised Land of perfection in our souls and bodies (Isa. 40:3-5; 43:19; 48:6-8).
What then is this highway?
It is the complete revelation knowledge of how to pray and walk in the Spirit that will take you straight into the Promised Land of perfection, rather than roaming about in the wilderness of sense knowledge as the Church has been doing for the last 2000 years.
Sense knowledge is a mere mental comprehension of the scriptures.
Revelation knowledge is a personal revelation of the hidden truth and application of the scriptures given by the Holy Spirit. It is as though the Holy Spirit plays back a ‘spiritual video’ of God’s thoughts concerning the scriptures in your mind.
This highway is the way of walking in divine love by operating efficiently the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus. This will perfect us in love and so take us into the Promised Land of perfection (1Cor. 12:31; 14:1; Col. 3:13-14).
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