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Kingdom Manna
KINGDOM MANNA
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Introduction
The sixteenth chapter of Exodus tells how God fed the Israelites in the wilderness with bread from heaven. Each morning it fell like dew and remained until the sun melted it. Each family gathered enough for that day, except on the sixth day of the week they gathered enough for two days so they would not have to gather on the Sabbath. On each day, except the sixth day, if they tried to keep any of this bread until the next day, it spoiled and worms hatched out of it.
When the Israelites first saw this bread, they called it manna. Manna literally means, “What is this?” or “It is a portion.”
In John 6:32-35 Jesus says, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.” Like many things in the Old Testament, the manna from heaven was a type and shadow of Jesus himself.
John 1:1 tells us, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Then in verse 14 we read, “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” Jesus is the living Word of God and the Bible is the written Word of God. In order to mature and be sustained spiritually, we must daily feed on the living Word of God and on the written Word of God.
Everyone knows that we have to eat regularly in order for our bodies to mature and be sustained. Try not eating for a day. Your body will begin to cry out to you for something to eat. Unlike animals that hibernate, we can’t store up food and expect it to last for very long. The Word of God is the same. We need to feed on our relationship with the Lord and on his written Word daily.
I have found it extremely important in my own life to continually feed on the Word of God. In addition to reading and studying the Bible myself, I read and listen to numerous other teachers/preachers/prophets, etc. I thank God for CD’s and tapes. Much of the time I am driving or doing manual labor, I am listening to someone teach or preach the Word.
The weekly email, KINGDOM MANNA and the soon to be published book will provide another source for you to feed on God’s Word.
It is my desire that they encourage and build you up mentally, emotionally and spiritually, equipping you for success in your life and ministry. It is my prayer that as you read these and study the scripture references that you too will receive revelation from the Holy Spirit.
These teachings are short and in no way intended to be a thorough study of any of the subjects addressed. I suspect that as you seek the Lord and receive what he has for you in these teachings, you will probably have more that you could teach me than I have taught you. If that in fact becomes the case, I will consider my work a success. In addition to teachings, KINGDOM MANNA includes prophetic words and personal testimony.
Forward: The Remnant
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and you sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit, and I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth….. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered; for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call. Joel 2:28-30,32
Many be called, but few chosen. Jesus in Matthew 20:16
These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. Revelation 17:14
There is a group of people in the earth today, chosen by God to manifest the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven. In order for these people to manifest the Kingdom of God on earth, that Kingdom must first manifest in them. First of all, it must manifest in each one individually and then in this group corporately.
One of the things God has been doing with my ministry is using me to find, connect, encourage and equip this group of believers that are not only born again, but are beginning to manifest the Kingdom of God on earth. At this time I think this group is small in comparison to the church-world at large. God has had these individuals in a process of intense training, positioning and equipping for a long time. The purpose of this process is to not only train, position and equip them but to bring them to maturity. In other words, it is to manifest the Kingdom of God within them.
The result of this will be that they (individually and corporately) will manifest the Kingdom of God on earth. Some of these individuals are in local churches while some of them can’t seem to fit in anywhere. Some have an understanding of the process they have been going through while others have no idea about what is going on. The Old Testament prophet Joel wrote about this group of believers in Joel 2:32, speaking of the days in which we live. “And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call.”
Webster defines a remnant as: a remaining, usually small part; a leftover; a fragment or scrap. God has always had a remnant, a chosen people through whom he could manifest his presence in the earth. Among others he had Noah and his family, Abraham and his family, then the Israelites, then the Jews, then the Christians. Remnants are individuals and/or groups of people that God has chosen to manifest himself in and through. God has to have someone to manifest his presence in the earth. He gave the earth to man and gave man authority over the earth. So, in order to have a presence in the earth he needs a person or a people.
In Matthew 20:16 Jesus tells us that many are called but few are chosen. If you are chosen, you did not do the choosing. If God waited on us to choose him, I don’t think anyone ever would. The sin-nature we are born with desires darkness rather than light. By nature we are all very selfish and self-centered individuals. Perhaps this is why so many people substitute religion for a genuine spiritual experience and relationship with Jesus. Religion deceives people into believing they are OK with God when in reality they are far from him.
Throughout the last 2000 years of church history there have been numerous remnants. These were groups that embraced a little deeper revelation and that had a more intense hunger for the things of God than the status quo. Groups like the Protestants, the Methodists, the Anabaptists, the Pentecostals, the Charismatics and others.
Today there is a new remnant. While all of the past remnants have manifested the Kingdom of God in part, I believe this new remnant is going to manifest the Kingdom of God in its fullness. Jesus is building his glorious Church without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, holy and blameless, that the gates of hell will not prevail against (Ephesians 5:26-27, Matthew 16:18). He is building it on the foundation of apostles and prophets (Ephesians 2:19-22). He is establishing a true five-fold ministry to serve the Body of Christ, encouraging and equipping the saints for success in life and ministry, until we all come into the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, becoming conformed to the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Anointed One and his anointing (Ephesians 4:11-13).
I believe we are entering the time when this glorious church is emerging on the world scene. God not only wants to re-establish the apostolic church that began in the first century, he wants to take that church to completion or fullness.
The days just ahead are going to be the most exciting, the most glorious days we have ever known. God has been preparing many of us for this time through an intense process of trials, tests and imparting revelation knowledge to us from his Word and from his very own heart.
We are living in the most exciting time in all of history so far. Surely we were born for such a time as this. |
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