Water Before Wine

GTF Elder C. Edward Smith

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

The Spirit of the Lord has been sowing a “word” in the midst of Grace & Truth about “Receiving By Hearing, (then) Experiencing His Doing.”

When it was said: “Before the Lord uses (a vessel) He cleanses it first,” I began to recall the revelation of the Lord, to me; that His way is to require a thing [Mic 6:8], or command a thing [Jn 14:15], so that He could thereby empower Himself to “perform” (fulfill) His own requirement. Hence “Without (Him) (we) can do nothing” [Jn 15:5] because “It is God (who)(is)(working) IN (us) both to will and to do .. His good pleasure” [Ph 2:13] Sound familiar?

Therefore, it is written: “(I)(WILL) SPRINKLE clean water (on) YOU, and …(I)(WILL) CLEANSE YOU…And I WILL put my Spirit within you, and CAUSE YOU …to keep my judgments [Eze 36:25]

Then the Spirit of the Lord said: “The ‘miracle’ (of His doing) is (manifested) in (our) transformation”

What we were given to see is the “order” of HIS “DOING;” hence, the “Water (the washing of the Word) before the Wine (the)(Spirit) of His doing.” …as in Genesis 1:1; when the Spirit brooded over “the face of the water,” …then God (spake) [Gen 1:3]

Thus, we were given a glimpse of the “supernatural” operating ’dynamic’ of the Lord AFTER the “word,” out of His mouth, is “spoken.” FIRST HE SPEAKS, THEN HE DOES what He has spoken, by His Spirit.

We were told that “We experience the “doing” of God, in our lives, once His “word” preached is “mixed with faith” IN our hearing.”

Finally, we heard “We are changed by the “experience” (of His ’doing’), not the “theology” (of His ‘Speaking’)

ThenSingsMySoul:

IT TOOK A ‘MIRACLE’ TO PUT THE STARS IN PLACE; IT TOOK A

‘MIRACLE’ TO HANG THE WORLD IN SPACE. BUT WHEN HE SAVED

MY SOUL, CLEANSED AND MADE ME WHOLE, IT TOOK A ‘MIRACLE’

OF LOVE AND GRACE!