8/28/2020 This is the real problem you're having (Prophetic Drive Time)

What you thought was the problem is not the problem at all. The real problem is that you don't know that you're blessed.

Your problem wasn't what you thought it is. The real problem with you is that you don't know that you're blessed. How many of you have been asking the Lord to bless you? How many of you have been wanting to be blessed? That's not your problem and as a result, you've been looking around, "This is my problem..." And there's a pressing in the spirit.

You're praying to be blessed, you're asking to be blessed, so you're thirsting after the blessing. The problem is, you're already blessed, if you would just come into the ownership of that reality, of that truth, that you're blessed, then you would not be spending your time turning after or begging. Lord says, "You don't have to beg Me." It makes it seem as though our Father is not a generous at all, that He's not good at all. And that's of course not true. You've been looking at the situations and thinking that those were the issues, and those were the problems for you. And the Lord said, "Those are not the problems at all.  This is your real problem, is that you don't know you're blessed." The blessings are supposed to come and overtake you. 

You notice how much you want to be blessed, no matter how much you beg to be blessed, that it rarely ever changes anything. But how many of you have ever met somebody who you could just see the Lord showing up for time and time again, who didn't chase the blessings, but the blessings chased them. 

After so long, we lose our perspective of who God is in this place, and we lose our sense of relationship to Him, asking as the terms or making our petitions known to Him. Believing that He's doing and is He really good? He says He is. The Word says He is. So where's the disconnect? It's always a walk of faith.

Ephesians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ

Now, how many of you know that the Word of God is real? Ephesians 1:3 - it has to be literal! But oftentimes, our sense of being blessed is determined so much of what we see and what's around us in seasons. And sometimes it's difficult to distinguish seasons, and times of correction, testing and trials, to open back up to the platform to where the platform is, where we are back in the place to where we are established, and when we've come out of the wilderness- in this place, all the blessings of the Lord are Yes and Amen. 

But we take the wilderness personal. We take the times of trying personal. Sometimes people are broken in it. And so the Lord has to spend some time building you up, and sometimes we can lose perspective on who we think God is. 

In order to seek the Kingdom, you have to be able to take the Word of God and live in, take it as the very literal decree, as very literal. "I am loved." So if you say you're seeking first the Kingdom but you don't believe that you're loved by God, guess what? You're not seeking the Kingdom. If you're feeling bogged down in condemnation and all these things, then you're not seeking the Kingdom. Because the Kingdom is a Kingdom established in truth, righteousness, love. You notice how there's people who all the time talk about how they're doing everything right, but they keep missing the Kingdom. Even the notion that you're blessed takes away the stress and the angst of the pursuit. One, it rid of you that kind of barren, that wanting, lack, that creates anguish, the sense that you need something that you don't have. But how many of you know that Jesus walked on earth, during His time His walk on earth was a walk from the Kingdom. Why was He anxious for nothing? Because He knew. When His ministry started "This is My beloved Son, who I am well pleased." That even it was witnessed by Martha that says, "Everything You asked the Father, He did for You. So even if you ask Him this thing, I know He will do that for you, He always hears you." Why? Because these are established truths. So even knowing that you're loved, blessed- what is a situation or a need that arise to you when you know that you're blessed? But when you don't know that you're blessed, when a sudden need arises, what happens? You're tossed immediately into panic, anxiety. And in those places, it's hard for you to see your provisions manifest. The Kingdom of Heaven is a real place, and there's a real disposition. Why? Because nobody in the Kingdom of Heaven is stressed, pressed, lacking, in want, in need, in poverty - none of it exists there. So even if I don't have here, I can pray to My Father and He will send, He will multiply some bread, some fishes for me, He will send the provisions. That's why He said, "Seek first the Kingdom of heaven and His righteousness and all these things will be added unto you." 

Romans 10:2-3 
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

Righteousness of God which is by faith. If you want to enter the Kingdom of God, then you got to believe what God says. It's not just what you do, it's also what you believe. Because we know that no whoremonger, no adulterer, no murderer, no fornicator, no thieves are gonna enter the Kingdom of heaven. So it's a combination of what you do or don't do, with what you believe. Then you got to believe the Word of God, you got to believe the statutes of God, you got to believe the judgments of God as well. But for most people when they hear that verse, the only thing they do is they focus on what they're doing or not doing, but they don't enter in because of what they fail to believe. 

Bible says in Ephesians 3, that Christ dwell in our hearts by faith. So regardless of how you feel, you got to believe like Lord Jesus "I thank You for living in me. I thank You that You are with me." So what happening is you are pursuing the Kingdom because you are set out in faith according to the Word. It's the Word that gives you access. So if you don't believe that you are blessed, if you don't believe that you are loved, then how can you be pursuing the Kingdom? What will happen is by the conduct of whether what you're doing or not doing, that will show you approved to men, but it's not the complete package for you to enter in. Because ultimately, it's the trust in God. Abraham believed God, and it was accounted unto him for righteousness. Without faith it is impossible to please God. So it's not just what you're doing or not doing, which is a form of righteousness in the form of godliness, but also you have to tap on what you believe. So not only by the fear of the Lord, I am not doing this or doing this. 

We also have to believe the Word of God. So when the Lord tells you that you are already blessed, unless you believe those things- you want the Kingdom to come to earth, you want what is already established in the Kingdom to manifest in your life on earth, on earth as it is in heaven. 

So Jesus will always tell, "Fear not. Why did you doubt?" What was He saying? He said, there was no reason to doubt because what was available for you or to you, was already established in heaven. When if you keep looking at your natural situations, trying to get God to congeal with the natural environment, and the Lord is trying to get you to congeal with the Kingdom environment. It is already established in heaven. Isn't it crazy how we can be sitting around begging about something, worried about something and the Lord's like, "Fear not!" And you're like, "Lord, I got some pretty legitimate reasons to fear." And He's like, "No you don't." Why? "Because, I'm trying to conform to heaven where it's already established." You're pressing, compromising, slick, doing all these things, trying to get the blessing, trying to chase the blessing, when you're already blessed. It's weird. Toiling, thinking, "Lord, if I can just get you to bless me." Instead of saying, "Lord, I acknowledge that I am already blessed." And because I'm already blessed, the blessings are supposed to do one thing- hunt me down. They're supposed to be searching for me, to overtake me.

The Lord is saying, "I'm good." The question is, do you know that? Because this is the real problem that many of us face. It's a choice you make. I choose to accept that I am based upon the Word that is declared. And even if you have a mustard seed of faith, the Lord says, that's all it takes, because the Lord wants to change something very significant for you. 

This becomes that moment where things do change, where you start noticing favor pursuing you. Hot pursuit. And time is an interesting thing, it's one of those things to where we try to brace ourselves with expectation, with belief, but with the wisdom of how God does a thing. It's one thing for the Lord to say "I'm gonna do this for you."But this has nothing to do with the Lord's timing - because it already happened. It already happened in Christ. And He says, "My people come into it now." You see the difference? That's what happens, when we've been waiting on the Lord for specific things for a long time, we do what we can to guard our faith, but also to protect our heart, to keep us. But when you're talking about a spiritual identity, there's no time frame into which it will develop. When I am born again, I am born again then. Not, well, I'm going to be born again. It's something that happened when I believed - it happened in Christ. I'm already blessed in Christ. When I became born again, there is no time constraint on that, it is my reality now. Because it is my reality now, what is already established in heaven, I can see manifest and become a reality in my life. 

We pursue our petitions, instead our petitions are supposed to come back to us. But people will pray for those petitions and pursue it, until they become salivating and dried out and wanting and just desperate and faint. But when you know that it's already established in heaven, and that you are what Christ already said you were, you don't pursue it. It pursues you. Because when you're blessed, you can go about your business being occupied by the blessings, the other blessings that are flowing in your life today, and that shows up, and you'll be like, "Oh, Lord, that's right, I did ask you for that." I wasn't desperate for it. Why? Because, I'm blessed. The other blessings, all the other stuff in Christ, was already looking for me, because I'm in my right mind, I'm in my right spiritual mind. When you're not Kingdom minded, you're out of your mind. And a person whose out of their mind, they never see clearly. They always over or underestimating the reality around them. Their perception of their reality around them is skewed. So they don't make sense, and while they may make sense to somebody else, but it's crazy talk to the Lord. You are blessed in Christ. David said it this way, "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want." What does want have to do with the Lord being your Shepherd? What is it about want that David realized wasn't good when it came to God? What revelation did he get that made a statement, "I shall not want."What did David see about God? This was before Christ came, and all the blessings in Christ were revealed. Because he got a glimpse of God's provision and how want is something that is not good in God.

The Lord talks about this all the time, "Be anxious for nothing. Look at the birds, the flowers." Jesus said, your evidence is if God's going to provide for the very least of the thing, what do you think, He'll do for you.

But see the problem is, we don't know what's already been established by God in heaven. Because you don't know what's already been established by God in heaven, how can you walk in it? Without a vision, the people perish. They perish for lack of knowledge. What you don't know is killing you- what you're lacking in knowledge.

The blessing must be chasing you. There's supposed to be a peace and a rest, and a steadiness that comes from being in Christ. 

"I'm blessed, because Your Word says it, not because I'm trying to pursue or chase the blessings. Because I'm already that in Christ. This is my reality. I don't have to run or chase for the blessing, beg, and the main thing I'm looking for in God, that I made a petition for, I don't have to stress or be anxious about it. Because there are plenty of other blessings coming to pursue or overtake me when I'm waiting on that one. So when I'm waiting for this to show up, I have no problem receiving the other ones to occupy my time, to the point wherein I'm not stressed, desperate, and kind of like in the desert. You know it's almost like being in Christ, is like being in a desert - the way so many people describe it, always in need, never being provided for, just like in the desert, like God is a barren wasteland, of inability, and a lack of love, and a lack of provision, and a lack of goodness for this people, like just a couple of water Jesus if you be so kind. That's what it's like. It's an interesting thing how we perceive God, how even the mention of Him being good offends people because they dare not believe or they believed, and they pursued something and they chased something, instead of receiving something. And so now  their walk with Him is a bitter one and an angry one. They're like the older brother in the parable of the prodigal son - when the young son came back, the older was perplexed. 

The Parable of the Lost Son (Luke 15:11-32) - this is Jesus telling the story, how He saw the Father:

11Then He said: “A certain man had two sons. 

12And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood. 

13And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. 

14But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want. 

he began to be in want. 

Want is a bad place.

15Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. 

16And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything.

So many of us children, kingdom citizens have been so far outside of the place that we need to be. That we actually take the fruit and the bread, the food that's prepared or that's offered up to the swine, to those who don't believe or those who don't have a right standing. You think that your portion is supposed to be the world's portion, you think that because it's happening in the world, you're afraid of it happening to you, that means you're eating the world's portion. Because they couldn't close the deal, you're worried that you can't close the deal, but you misunderstand the favor of God in your life. You're looking at their situation and it's happening to them, and you think it's going to happen to you. There's food for the pigs and dogs. The bread is for you. So stop being afraid of what's happening in the world or what you see them get. It's not your portion.

and no one gave him anything.

Sometimes, God will stop somebody's hand to get you to the place where you need to be. God wants you to find your way back home. If people would have gave him, it would have kept him in a bad place. But the Lord says, "I want to reinstate you, to re-establish you."

17“But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! 

But when he came to himself,

When you're in the wrong place spiritually, he came to himself, he remembered who he was. When he came to himself, it wasn't about where he was, it was about who he was. You think the situations around you is the problem, that's not the problem - who you are is. He remembered who he was and where he came from. Do you know where you come from? It's important that you know who your Father is! (John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life)

How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare

This is Jesus talking. My Father have bread enough to spare, even the servants of My Father, they walk in abundance. 

A good man, it's one thing to take care of your family, take care of your kids. How do you treat people that work for you? How do you treat the people under you? He is revealing the nature of God, that even His servants, they don't lack anything, they got extra. That's how good He is. And you think He won't be good to you. And think about what a ridiculous notion it is for you to be out there chasing the blessing, as if He would give to His higher servants, but wouldn't give to you. It's the notion that you really don't believe how good God is that's failed all of us. Your misunderstanding has cost you dearly. (Example: made you settle for the wrong man, it kept you in desperation and you chased after the wrong man even though you can feel the Lord saying, "No. I got something better for you." But because you didn't know how good God was, you didn't know that He was going to bring you the man of your dreams. Desperation - I just need somebody in my life. Why? Because you're in want. And you settled for the husk that I laid out for the pigs. But the Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want. Because He leads me.

This is Jesus. Paul is one thing, Peter is one thing. Jesus is describing the place that He came from. A servant in the kingdom is still better than the son outside the kingdom, because he's perishing in hunger.

18I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you,

I will arise and go to my father

He's concocting how he's ever going to get back, "into my father's good graces after all I've done." After all we've done, it's hard to be comfortable in the presence of God again. 

 

19and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.” ’

Make me like one of your hired servants

A lot of people are walking ground like hired servants.

20“And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. 

But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion

The young man have been gone for a long time and he had lost all. He left looking like a prince or royalty, confident, just like, "I'm royalty." But by the time you get to the pig pens, and you've lost it all, and coming to the place of want, unshowered, uncleaned, unkept, even the weight loss begins to disfigure you, the stress, the clothes...

But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him. The father recognized him. He didn't look the same way he left. How did you know it was him out of all the passerbys? God said, the father sat there everyday looking at the horizon as people went by. The father waited day after day for him to return. The eyes of love recognized his son even through he had been disfigured, disheveled, transformed by the failures of life.

21And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

22“But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. 

23And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry; 

24for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ And they began to be merry.

25“Now his older son was in the field. And as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. 

26So he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant. 

27And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and because he has received him safe and sound, your father has killed the fatted calf.’

28“But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and pleaded with him. 

29So he answered and said to his father, ‘Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends. 

30But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.’

31“And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours. 

Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours. 

What was he saying, at anytime you could have had because everything that I have is yours- absolutely represent law and grace. There's some people out there trying to work for your salvation, it doesn't appeal to the goodness of you. He was left all that the father have was already his, but he doubted the father's love. He never knew the father's love because he tried to work to earn it. Because he tried to work to earn it, it wasn't revealed to him.

32It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found.’ ”