The Lord says, "You can't exhaust Me."
And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.
So what the Lord was showing me, in this new space in time of life, what the Lord was pouring out, as much as you could carry. Some people can carry more than others. You will only be limited by your capacity to carry. When Jesus multiplied the bread, you got to know that these supernatural events are common with God. These type of events are common, this is nothing new. This is a historical truth about God, an outpouring from the Lord. He said, "Some people can carry more than others." What He's been working on, is all the words, what has it been doing, He said, "I've been working on their capacity to carry." You will only be limited by what you can carry.
When Jesus multiplied the bread and fed, He gave them each until they are full, which means some people got full before others. You were allowed to eat until you were full. And what the Lord is saying, "In this outpouring, don't get upset if you see the Lord doing more in somebody else's lives. Why? Because their capacity to carry more is different than yours." That's why these words have been coming for to increase your capacity to carry. Because whatever your capacity to carry, that's what the Lord is pouring out on you. Remember when Elijah was with the widow woman, and he said go get the water pots, and he filled until she ran out of capacity. If she had a hundred more water pots, that thing would have kept on pouring. This is biblical truths about God. You know why people don't believe God, or believe these things about God, because they have not seen it. But do you know what it is to be in a chosen generation like you are in? It's amazing, you've gone through a level of trial and testing, even though the world itself was not in, like a depression, or we were in a situation that didn't affect the world, but it was affecting God's people. Which means, while people were increasing, God's people were decreasing. It was something specific. We were being drawn out of the world, led through these very dark and difficult times, that in itself was astounding for others. The same way it was astounding for people to see you in that situation, is the same way it's going to be astounding when God turns the situation. It was a miracle for people to see you, it was a sight to behold for them to see you, it caused a lot of stirring for people to see you in the place that you were in. What's happening to you is not consistent with what is happening with everyone else. It's not like the economy was bad, the stock market was bad- it wasn't a natural occurrence that puts you in the situation that you were in, which is what caused people to look and gaze. So if the hand of God could cause a visible observation of you coming down, then how much more will the hand of God cause the same visual observation of you coming up. Because collectively, the Body of Christ, for us to all have this kind of experience in this time of trial, and it's very rare. It's usually sporadic- this person over there, that person over there, but for the Lord to gather a remnant, for the Lord to gather a group of people, send them to a series of difficulties that wasn't consistent with everybody around, it was as much of a supernatural display of our going down, as our arising- it's all the same. It isn't an event that is uncommon that God has performed. And see people had no doubt, they didn't doubt when you were going down. Because you felt so alone, but you didn't know it was a group of us in this place, there was many of us taking through the wilderness. Have you seen the amount of people traversing through the backside of the wilderness, the Lord is doing something, that's a whole lot of people, but it was still the hand of God leading.
The Lord says this, "As much as you can carry." The display of what God is doing, it's the same spiritual dynamic, I bring you down, people marvel, people point, they mock, they do all these things. I lift you up, people are amazed. But it's the same phenomenon, and it was isolated for a remnant of people. He's been working on your capacity to be open to receive, to strengthen your hands, arms for what God is pouring out on you. This is like a historic biblical context we're living in, where we see the kind of things the Bible talks about. It is not uncommon for God, but it's been uncommon to the world around. They've lost perspective, like God is not the same yesterday, today; like He's not the same, like somewhere between Him being amazing, being all powerful, being faithful, Him being the One who would do the above and beyond, somewhere He got to our generation and lost all kinds of power, ability, He don't do this anymore. And it couldn't be further from the truth.
As much as you can carry. I don't even know how to really describe this kind of season, but there is a witness, there is an Amen in the spirit of those who hear, of those who know the voice of the One. I can point it out to you historically, look at how God moved there. Even when you look at 2 Kings 7, when the four lepers went out, it was the turn of seasons - a season of great drought or great depression, of great lack, of great hardship, to a season of great increase. How would we think that God is different? You think that's a time and that season of lack wouldn't equal a season increase? That's how He turns the tables. That's just His way. That's just how He does it. That's just Him.
Do you know why I can count on Him? Because I don't allow men's opinion to change my mind about Him, I look at the consistency of Himself through His word. And because I don't allow my mind to change because of somebody's hardship, this or that, then I'm always able to see Him come through for me. I'm blessed, I'm blessed because of my understanding. Whatever you believe God to be, remember this, you'll always have access to it.
The same way it was divine for you to go down, the same way it's just going to be as divine for you to arise. It's no difference. It was divine, because there was no natural event that brought you into the pit that you were in. It was divine ordination. He's been working on your capacity to carry, your capacity to widen the breadth of your hands, strengthening your hands for as much as you can carry, is what the Lord will be pouring out on you in this time. He's been working on our hearts and our understanding and our focus and our ability to carry what He purposed to pour out.
When you see somebody carrying a little bit less, or a little bit more than you, don't get mad, don't get upset, don't get envious, don't get none of that stuff, because the Lord has been processing your ability to carry, more to the full. Amen.
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