For a view
weeks God is giving me a different insight on the spiritual realm, and specifically
on how we are co-creators with God right now. For a long time I have found
myself stuck in a wilderness and for some reason God didn't give clear
directions on the why and where to go to. I had ideas about it, but no confirmation
from God at all. On Instagram I made a
joke about it and posted the following picture saying: “My preference followed
by my reality…Anybody knows how to read a map?”

God decided
to step in and is teaching me how to read the map myself. I’ve been chewing on
it for a view weeks now and slowly it is starting to make sense to me. Most
Christians like myself have been thought or have the idea that we have to wait
for specific directions from God before we can move and take action. In that
time that we are waiting we have the tendency to wait and just go through our
daily routines and pray about it. We ask God, we beg God, we go from conference
to conference to seek God and we let others pray for us and yet, it seems that
God is just not responding to us. So many Christians like myself, find
themselves staring at a map that does not make any sense at all. We have no
destination points or no direction to even get to a destination point. Then
there are also moments that you do have a destination point but for some reason
we are not reaching that point. It could be anything: health, finances,
promotion, a job, relations, … you name it. I don’t know dear reader if you
can relate to this at all…but this is where I’ve been living from the moment I
gave my life to Christ and even before that.
“I (Jesus) am the vine; you are the branches.
If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you
can do nothing.” John
15:5
I think it’s
safe to assume that most of us know this verse. What I am starting to realize
is how little I understand it. In Genesis it says that God created mankind in
His own image, in the image of God He created them. After the first sin, Adam
and Eve were cut off from the tree of Life and lost their ruling position. From
now on they had to work for it. But with the work of Jesus at the cross and through
His resurrection, He restored our position back to when Adam and Eve were just
created. And I believe that the tree of Life is now the vine that Jesus is talking about in
John 15. To remain in the vine is not hard work, we simply have to receive the
power/ food source coming from the vine. To let the flow of Life from the Holy
Spirit run through us through communion, relationship, meditating and studying
the Scriptures.
The thing that
God is teaching me is that this goes a bit further than that. In life we get to
decide what we look at, what we listen to, with what we allow into our lives
and what not. This is the first step into remaining in Jesus or not. This is
called “the sponsoring thought.” This is the first thought that is the food
supply for every other thought that will follow. If our sponsoring thought is
based on fear, it will have effect on the thoughts that will follow. For
example, I mentioned in a earlier blog that my greatest fear was being happy.
This was my first thought, so as I was going though the course of life I would
think about how I had to make sure not to enjoy the good things in life, just
in case it would turn its back on me like all the other times. I don’t think it
needs explanation to tell you the effect that this had on my behavior, choices
and actions. This one example alone had a huge effect on the quality of my life
and I was a magnet for bad things happening in my life. So now I was using the
ruling power that God gave me and co-created my life in a way that did not bear
the fruits of the tree of Life. When my sponsoring thought is love however, this
will be the feeding source on all the other thoughts going through my mind and
from that the words I speak and from that the actions I take.
This in
itself is not that big of a revelation, this makes a lot of sense. What is new
to me is the power that our thoughts have. In the spiritual (invisible) realm
it creates a substance around us. In Matthew 5 Jesus already explains this. He explained
that with our heart, thought and words we can commit murder or adultery. In
Jesus’ His ministry we read a couple of times that He knew what the people were
thinking. We might call it the discernment of the Spirit and that is true. Yet
in the spiritual realm this is one of the reasons it gets picked up on. So now
we have created with our minds a substance in our environment. The next step/
level of creating is words. This is productive and our thoughts and words together
are magnificently effective in giving birth to our reality. From that flows
actions, which are words moving, or words and thoughts expressed.
So, let’s
have another look at the wilderness map. We see question marks and we see very
unclear roads. The first thing God wants us to do is for us to separate ourselves
from our slave mentality. Pruning and changing our sponsoring thought into the
vine called Jesus which is Love. “As the
Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my
commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands
and remain in his love.(…) My command is this: Love each other as I have loved
you.” John 15:9-12
The top
picture is a clear example of the slave mentality. Just like the Israelites
were use to getting the command and they just did what was told. The top
picture represents just that. The sponsoring thought was based on fear and when
the source of commandment (Moses) was gone for too long, they panicked and
quickly created something else to follow. They walked around complaining,
blaming, not taking responsibility and refused to leave the slave mentality
behind in the dessert. It were Joshua and Caleb that changed their first
thought from the pharaohs ruling over them into trusting the love that God had
for them to walk them through the difficulties into their new destination
point.
So, how do I see this work out in my
life?
Since two weeks I am placed in a
program to reintegrate me back into the marketplace. For a short period I get
the chance to get use to the work routine before having to do it on a salary
for a company. This means that four days in the week I have to do work that is
very simple and not challenging at all. God allowed me to fill in the question
marks with dreams He has put into my heart, but He left out the confirmation.
This means that I have the idea but not direct orders from God. The door to
this (working) place, which has nothing that remotely looks like going into the
direction of the destination point that I feel in my spirit, is the only door that
is opened up for me right now.
This caused me to be pulled to both sides of the
sponsoring thoughts. I had to make a choice which one to pick. As I was there
working alongside people that are very negative, complaining and not taking
this opportunity serious, there was this one line that continued to rise in my mind: “Don’t despise the small beginnings” (via Matthew Prewett).
It made me determined to take this moment in life serious and make the best out
of where I am now. So with a positive attitude I started to do the work as I
would if I was working for a company. In the beginning they couldn’t stand me, they
were gossiping and talking negative about me. Some of them actually hate(d) me.
The second day coming in, the atmosphere was as dark and thick as it could be
and ‘lucky me’, we were placed together to work as a team. Their thoughts about
me was almost visible. But I remained positive, doing what I know God wants me
to do and keeping my thoughts coming from the vine and trusting that God would
protect me from the knives thrown at me. I decided to create my ‘workplace’
into heavenly culture and not accept anything less. I took interest in their
lives, spoke positive words about and to them, shared a bit about my own life and tried to made them laugh every
now and then. On the third day the first changes were becoming visable, they slowly started
to accept me. Their attitude changed and our teamwork became more productive
and more fun. In this second week I could feel a change in the atmosphere. At
one point some even missed me when I left to pick up my daughter from
school. They said they should call me and tell me to come back again, because
without me it just didn’t work (which means that they started to care about
what they were doing). It's still a work in process, but we are all infected by the environment created around me with that what God told me to
do.
Because God
showed me that I have the power to create the things happening in my life,
knowing that I am made in the image and therefore likeness of God, I was able
to stand strong and keep my thoughts, words and actions the way they had to be.
I see this revelation work in my life right now…even within two weeks.
God has put dreams and destination points and the roads towards
them in our hearts and lives. They are waiting for us to come into realization.
The reason that the devil is working so hard to come into our thought life, is to
make us create the strongholds many of us are stuck in and therefore we won’t
co-create our lives with God. We are allowed by God to fill in the question
marks ourselves and with our thoughts, words and action we are coloring the
road, already put there by God, into reality. We don’t have to beg God, we can
thank God. We don’t have to ask how, we just trust that He will make sure we
will arrive. Aim high, but know that it usually starts low. When we climb a mountain
to reach the top, you know you have to start at the bottom. Don’t settle there,
but do make the most out of it. Know that you are big creation machines and you
are turning on a new manifestation literally as fast as you can think. I
started to be aware of my thoughts, words and actions and check them if they
are in alignment with my higher vision. If not, I change them and decide not to
think, speak or do it anymore.
I pray this
blesses you and that you can use this in your own life. Many blessings from me
to you.
(Part of the process of this revelation and
some of the knowledge that is processed into this blog, comes from: “Be
Inspired” & “You Are Creators” via YouTube)