The New Breed of Disciple - Treasure Hunting Presence Lovers

The Heart is the battle ground.   Not that is hasn't always been.  

And in the battle fields of the heart the Holy Spirit is jealously stripping away everything that hinders holy affection and love for Jesus.  I believe a move of the Spirit is taking place that is dramatic in it's proportions and very "internal" in its fire.   

People are coming into contact with this internal fire and are flooded with a choice.  Or choices in a string or series of cascading fires.   Will we really surrender our hearts to the extent to which the Spirit is calling and place first love as our first priority?    That seems to be the Spirit's priority.  And, imparting a righteousness that comes with "the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him". (Eph 1:17)

This is not a trial.  This is a turning point.   This is not a season of cleansing.  this is a retrofit of righteousness.   The process,  if looked at as a trial will overwhelm every instrument learned to date to "cope" by means of worldly wisdom or comfort.   I believe that is a large part of the Spirit's work in all this, return us to a horizon filled with Christ.   God is looking to be our only comfort, security, strength, and love.   The Father's heart is jealous and the Bride of his Son has wandered from the passion and zeal that shaped her heart in the beginning.   

"But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first."  Rev 2:4

The new breed of disciple being called out is a TREASURE HUNTER.  Touched by the Spirit, they are experiencing an overwhelming new reality of the presence of God.   They are seeing into something they never understood before.  The presence of God is a never ending palatial invitation to the heart forever.   An invitation from the Father's heart to live in first love and know God in the fulness of Christ.   

"in whom are hidden ALL the treasures of wisdom and knowledge."  Col 2:3

 What are you hungry for?

So many believers are living in a state of survival.  They have no hunger.  They've decided scarps, left overs and fast spiritual food is enough.   

The heart says something different.   We were made for so much more.   The heart can't survive.  It gets sick without drinking in the deep waters of the love of God.   It was made to hunger and thirst.   The presence of God satisfies the heart like nothing available in the world.   Because when the heart drinks in the presence of God in freedom, joy, hunger and hunting it finds the heart of the Father open, receptive, and pouring out the deepest love known on earth.   

Treasure hunters – The new breed of Disciple - Presence lovers – expanding from the inside out.   Not a breed of believers looking for something to come their way.   The kind of disciples that toppled the Roman empire were carrying presence with them.   It was all suffiencent grace and power to overcome everything brought their way in the world.  

So many need a breakthrough.

·         It’s not that we didn’t see God in the past.   It’s that He is the God of the present.  The NOW.  And what we have to do is live from the heart now.   It's not that we didn't have encounters with his love.   It's that we have to live it – transformed inside – in the ways of God.  

Hidden treasures of wisdom and knowledge – IN Christ Jesus, are for the hungry.  The Treasure Hunters.   God honors the habitations of the hungry. 

Where is your heart?   Are you sensing the move growing around you?   Are you sensing something stirring in the Spirit?    

When the Lord falls on you.  Drink it all in.  Let the Spirit lead you to new and deep wells of presence.