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Greetings,
I hope you had a great week. I am home now and looking forward to my extended season here. I am recovering well and believe for the full testimony of God in my healing. God is good.
The book of Revelation is a revelation of Jesus Christ in the reality of the New Covenant. The testimony reveals the power of God’s grace found in Christ. That grace brings the blessings of God to those who believe by the manifest presence of Christ in their lives. It also proves to remove those things that are death and control in our lives. In Revelation chapter four we find a condition for living in the experience of New Covenant life in Christ. We must live in and from the presence of God in our lives. We have been brought near to God by the blood of the Lamb – Jesus Christ. In that place our lives are built upon the foundation of twenty-four elders to be a dwelling place of God by His Spirit. That foundation is in the throne room of grace.
Revelation 4:5 And from the throne proceeded lightnings, thunderings, and voices…
I believe that lightning is a symbol for revelation. The natural reality of lightning reveals a spiritual mystery of God in our lives. It is an enlightenment of Christ in our lives. Lightning can come from heaven to earth, or it can go from earth to heaven, depending on the negative charge. If there is a negative charge on earth, it attracts a positive charge from heaven. If we are hungry for God, we act like a negative charge to the positive willingness of God’s grace given to us by God’s love. When we desperately want God, we pull on God’s willingness to give and we receive a revelation of God and His love in our hearts. When a revelation comes to our hearts it is like a strike of lightning to the atmosphere of our lives. This results in a testimony of thunder.
When we receive a revelation of God in our hearts a change takes place that is seen and heard as a testimony of life in us. Lightning strikes and thunder rolls. The evidence of revelation from God to us is the sound of God in our lives. We receive a testimony of change that empowers us to boldly proclaim a testimony of His love. A sound can be heard from our soul because our spirit has come alive in Christ. This brings about a permanent change in our lives that is a voice to our world.
I experienced this fifty-two years ago. My life was changed by an internal revelation of Jesus Christ in my life. This resulted in a testimony in my life that has since caused me to be a voice of life to the world around me. This same pattern has proven to be true many times in my life. God’s manifest presence in our lives will change us and our world.
When your life is forever changed, you become someone who brings change to your world. This is a growing pattern in our lives as we grow in knowing Christ to us and in us. This week, God wants lightning to strike, and He wants thunder to roll. God wants to be voice in our lives that enables us to be a voice to our world. He wants something of our lives to change forever in a life-giving way.
Revelation 4:5 And from the throne proceeded lightnings, thunderings, and voices. Seven lamps of fire were burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
In the midst of the throne and around the throne are the seven Spirits of God. This is Holy Spirit as the One who perfects our lives by the Spirit of the Lord, the Spirit of Wisdom, the Spirit of Understanding, the Spirit of Counsel, the Spirit of Might, the Spirit of Knowing as in Intimacy, and the Spirit of the Fear of the Lord (the Awe of God in all things). This is the working of Holy Spirit in our lives that enables us to overcome every wicked thing and become a testimony of sons and daughters of God to our world.
Every revelation of Jesus Christ is meant to change our lives. I find this true in every season of my life. The older I am in Christ the more tender in Christ I become. I pray that we will have an encounter with Jesus this week that activates the working of Holy Spirit in our lives. May God’s presence in our lives be like lightning to our spirits and may it inspire out souls to be a testimony of being loved by God. It is not about information. It is about intimacy with God in Christ. He abides in us, and we abide in Him. Our partnership with Him and His partnership with us is a matter of love. It is a testimony of relationship. May the testimony of Christ in us be like thunder in our thoughts, reasoning, imagination, emotions, and desires. May there be a change in the attitudes, actions, and atmosphere of our lives that brings the life of God to the world around us.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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I went back and re-read this blog from Revelation 4–a few days ago I was praying and asked God to give me a scripture that told me more on “who I am in Him.” The Lord led me to Psalm 18–the images line up with your revelation on Thundering and lightenings–and more. What do you see in the other descriptions of God in His response to: “in my distress I called upon the Lord.” The Lord gave me this Psalm many years ago–I put it to music outside of an old mine in Colorado on a summer day–I love the symbolisms. I weep every time I read verse 16–He has with His right hand pulled me up from “many waters.” Thank you!