There is a great reveal coming to many of you. Some of you, don't even know who you are. And there's a push by the Holy Spirit to begin to share with you and to convince you that you are who the Lord says you are. But oftentimes people have a tendency to look at where we are to determine what we are, but no one knows the plant like the One who sowed it, no one knows the tree like the One who sowed it, no one knows the identity of what is growing like the One who sowed the seed. The Lord says to you, there will be many people who will say to you, 'I had no idea, this is who you were.' When you get enough of that feedback, you have a tendency to believe it. You have a tendency to fall for the misdiagnosis, you have a tendency to fall for the misconception for those who are assessing you based upon your growth.
What the Lord showed me was the life of Christ, His very own life how. There was a couple of different moments where you saw the Lord: at His birth, who He was was revealed only to a few people - the wise men, the shepherds, Mary and Joseph. And even though the star representing the great prophecy being fulfilled and Herod was aware that a King was born, no one had a real idea of the scope and the dynamic of what had taken place. What happens is after that, a brief moment where Christ was in the temple where He stayed behind and Mary and Joseph were looking for Him and they were a bit frantic and they came to find Him, and they were like, "Why'd you do this?" "Don't you know I had to be about My Father's business." But it wasn't time. From that point, He began a life that wasn't synonymous with the Son of God, but of the Son of the carpenter. He was born the Son of God, but He became identified as the Son of the carpenter, filled with all the greatness that will be revealed in time, to which when He showed up when it was this time of reveal, people said, "Isn't this just the carpenter's Son?"
At the time when you're revealed, when you know what you are, when it's your time of reveal, nothing changes. You don't change up. Because you're like, "Yeah. I've always been this. Now it's just being revealed." The Lord wants you to understand, you've always been what's about to be revealed. If you understand this dynamic, you see how the process of growth is, and you see God's perspective. This is why we carry so many heavy burdens that don't belong to us . The Lord often refers to us as plants, flowers, trees, throughout the entirety of the Word of God, you see us being referred to as these elements that start out as not what they will eventually be. They don't start out as what they will eventually become. But this is God's perspective, and if you can grab hold of God's perspective, you can grab hold of freedom, life, benefits and the blessings today.
The reason why we're constantly being referred to as plants, as flowers, as trees, is because the wisdom of God speaks this wise. He knows. That's why the Bible says He call it those things that be not as though they were. Because the Lord sees you as what He plants.
If you ever go to a farm, those who are familiar with the farm- He said, "What's in the field?" He's gonna tell you "That's corn." Even if you see nothing in the field, or even if you see one little bitty shoot, He's gonna call it, what it's going to become. He's going to call it what is soon to be revealed, He's not gonna call it where it is. "What's in the field?" "Those are bitty shoots, just little bitty stems sticking up." You see, and you've allowed people to convince you that you was just a little bitty stem, but the Lord says this, "There is a great reveal coming for you." And in this great reveal, what the Lord is going to do, He's going to bring out, or bring to manifestation, or bring to the time and place, what you've always been.
Greatness is not something that you've acquired through genealogy or logic, greatness was something that was given to you, with the deposit of the seed. And so the Lord says this, "Everytime I look at you, I see greatness." It's funny how people can look at a corn and see nothing but a nut. And we know how it's like to be young in this walk and be a little nutty. And the Lord says, it's time to plant you deep. And you go through this time frame where it's dark and you go through this time where it's like "This wilderness, this whole thing, I'm dying out here." When in actuality, you're giving birth to greatness. Now people in the early stages may walk by and say "Oh, I can't tell what that is." They can't tell what's growing out of you. They can't tell, what the Lord is drawing out, the greatness. They can't tell. But when the Lord looks, He says to you, "I see a mighty oak tree." Soon people will begin to see the mighty oak tree, that the Lord has deposited in you, the mighty oak tree that the Lord is revealing in you, who the Lord has purposed you to be, who the Lord has put in you to be, and who the Lord is drawing out of you. The same people who refuse to acknowledge, will be the same people who can't help but acknowledge, "I didn't see this in you."
The Lord says this, "No one can identify the tree, the plant, or the flower, like the One who planted it." And it takes a real botanist, it takes someone who's sent by the Master to recognize the potential in His field. Everybody who claims to be somebody and knows something can't recognize. But when you are sent by the Master, and you know how He values the field, then you speak to the field, like the Master speaks to it, you see what the Master sees. I can't call you something different, than He calls you. If I don't see what the Master sees, then I'm not fit to tend His garden.
Everything must be revealed in its time.
Throughout the process, throughout the time frame, there's different stages where we're growing, when we just need to be watered, or we just need to be nurtured. Before the mighty oak can provide shade for anything, it must take shade, take cover. It must learn to find protection, before it can give protection.
It's interesting because when you come in contact with something God has done, then it tends to bring you to a place of awe, especially when you see the kind of transformation that the Lord is doing in your life. You were almost convinced that you were nothing, but the Lord is declaring to you today, that what you are truly is being revealed. In its time, what you are will be revealed. And you've been looking forward to because you want the truth about who you are to answer your critics, so you can feel comfortable. The Lord is saying for you today, "This word is coming so you can take heart NOW." Be confident in it now. You see, Jesus said, "My time's not come yet." You see, and because I know who I am, I don't mind you mislabeling Me, I don't mind being introduced as the carpenter's Son, until it's time for the Son of God to be revealed. When you know who you are, it will stop rattling your cage when people can't see you.
John 2:4 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.
It ain't time for the awesome wonder. It's not time for the great reveal. It's not time yet, BUT. You see, being aware of your time frame, when Jesus went to His own hometown, they said, "Isn't this just the carpenter's Son?" NO.
You see, Jesus never walked around warring with the label, of the 'Carpenter's Son' prior to. He never worried about the mislabeling, because He knew the dynamics, the dunamis, the anointing, it wasn't time to be revealed.
You thought it was a big deal that they couldn't identify you. Because you were hanging your hopes on them seeing you correctly so that you can give your self permission to see yourself correctly. This becomes a snare to our soul. You were waiting for people to see you correctly, to give you permission for you to see yourself correctly. But the Lord says this to you, "Your identity does not hang in the balance of man's opinion." He said, "Because they have not created you, because they have not formed you, because they have not redeemed you, they cannot speak to you and give you the assurity that can only come from your Creator." The Lord says to you, "I formed you, I know what you are about, I created you, I know what is yet to be revealed."
When you seek the pleasing of man and the acceptance of man, the enemy will walk you right into a snare, and the Lord says to somebody today, "You don't need their permission to be great. If they mislabel you, what is preparing to be revealed, what is getting ready to be revealed, will leave them with no doubt." You don't need their permission. They didn't form you in your mother's womb. They didn't plant you, so you don't need their permission.
Even if the Lord Himself went through a time of being mislabeled, how could we possibly think that it was over for us and not see that it just wasn't time. How could we allow ourselves to be under any other persuasion?
The Lord says, A GREAT REVEAL IS COMING that has everything to do with the One who called, that has everything to do with the One who purposed, and people will say, 'I had no idea, that was in you. I had no idea, that's who you were. I had no idea, I'm blown away.'
GLORY TO GOD.
Everything revealed in His time. It was always who you were. It was always what God determined.
Flower doesn't start off revealing all its beauty. It first grows, and it can be quite unclear at times, what type of flower it is. And then it grows, and grows, and then the stems start to shoot out, and then it starts to bud, and even as it's budding, it's still hard to tell, what is that. And the moment when it's revealed, and He's like WOW, have you ever seen such a beautiful array. You see, the reason why the Lord refers you to those things is because you grow like those things - that is the system. When we don't know that, we work against it. When we don't know these truths, we don't flow with God, we start to flow against God, crafting our own ways, getting to our own minds, leaning on our own. When we don't understand that, insecurities and frustrations- they move us into a completely different field /space. It's in these moments that we need correction. You'd be surprised just how alright you would be if you knew HOW FAITHFUL GOD WAS. You ain't got to pretend, you ain't got to do none of those things.
Take heart and understand your process. The Lord sees you as what you will become. He ministers to you, He comforts you, He protects you, He keeps you.
• You don't even know that you're blessed, because you don't know the different stages of being blessed. Sometimes the blessing keeps you from danger. We look at the blessing as automatically as the supply. Guess what, what is about to be revealed to you, is the other dynamics of the blessing, and that is the supply. You were always blessed. If you look at the life of Abraham, the Lord called him out, war broke out, kingdom Sodom, he's in this conflict- what kept old man Abraham and his servants who were not trained in war, that allowed them to go out and defeat men who were trained in war? It was the blessing. The fact that you got out of what you got out of means you're blessed. But you've been looking at, you've been determining whether or not you were blessed by the fact of what you have, or have not. But the blessing takes on many forms. Sometimes it protects you. If the blessing is protecting you now, then you still got to know that you are BLESSED. The blessing has many stages and it encompasses many different dynamics. Sometimes you can tell that you are blessed by what didn't take you out. What wasn't allowed to claim victory over your life, the blessing kept you. Now, there's a greater level of blessing, another aspect of the blessing that the Lord says, "I'm calling out." - that's about to be revealed. Because of the blessing, I wasn't utterly consumed. But because of the same blessing, I'm about to touch a promise. Because of the same blessing, the unlikely me, is about to do something highly unlikely. I'm about to bear fruit.
You have been so blessed, and you didn't even know it. And because you didn't know, compromise was always around the corner, it was always at the door, insecurity was always at the door because you didn't know how blessed you were. But the Lord is calling forth a greater level of glory, a greater reveal of the blessing that's on your life. At one point it sustained you, at one point it protected you, but now it's about to cause you to walk in victory.
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