Summary
In this teaching, I discuss four steps to take in the process of coming into union with God.
I emphasize the importance of transferring your allegiance from your flesh to the Divine. I explain how this doesn’t just automatically happen: It requires sincere seeking that is the response to call of God. I also highlight the significance of utilizing the written Word as a means of being transformed into the perfect will of God and embracing the destiny that He has for your life. I encourage you to embrace the process and find contentment in your journey.
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Transcript with minor changes for readability
Prelude
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This isn’t for everyone. These teachings are specially designed for the Remnant, or those seeking healing or coaching in order to experience the deeper things of the Most High: Those who are called to represent Him in this life for His glory in these days and the days ahead.
Introduction
The title of today’s teaching is Four Points of Process. Unless you have been living in an underground bunker on a deserted island, you know that things are changing in America and even throughout the world.
But if you’re part of the Remnant, then these things won’t surprise you because the Bible speaks of these things: You already know about them. If you’ve been studying, reading, and seeking the Divine then you’ve known about them for quite some time.
Daniel 12:4 says that in the end days, many will run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. Well, we’re seeing lots of running to and fro aren’t we? There is all kinds of things going on everywhere. People are running around in every direction. Most of the time not a whole lot of good is being accomplished; but people are certainly running to and fro.
knowledge shall be increased
But there’s another issue that is mentioned in that verse that we’re also seeing; and that is “knowledge shall be increased”. Knowledge IS being increased. If you have your ear to the rail, you’ll hear things these days that, generally speaking, we have never heard before because the Most High is revealing Himself more and more. Why is knowledge being released? One reason is because the Remnant is going to be walking in ways that will require more of us than ever before.
But a lot of us are just coming into these things even as the cultural climate continues to grow even more and more intense. Still, the tension between good and evil will continue to intensify beyond imaginable parameters as the days progress. And so for those of us who are walking with the Divine, or wanting to, He is currently in the process of calling His people out of the world’s systems and into His marvelous light.
The Remnant is coming forth. (Biblical) Israel is rising. Praise His name. And we will be the instruments that He uses to establish His glory. Hallelujah!
But it’s a process. It’s a process that all who are called need to go through so that we can be who we are destined to be.
So today I am laying out four points of that process. It’s sort of a road map to help you understand what has happened to you, what might be happening to you now, or maybe what you can look forward to in the future as you proceed through the alignment process. Or maybe it will Help you see where you’re at so that you can just understand the lay of the land a little bit better in your current situation.
Four points of process.
Point 1: Seek wisdom, knowledge, and understanding.
The first point in the process of union with the Most High is to seek wisdom, knowledge, and understanding.
I’m going to read Proverbs 2:1 for you from the Net Bible. I often use the King James Bible. I’m not necessarily a “King James only” person. But I do use it as our foundation. But I also glean whatever I can from the Most High from wherever I can. And that’s the case here in Proverbs 2:1.
My child, If (the biggest word in then Bible), if you receive my words, and store up my commands inside yourself (not in a building, library or book). 2 By making your ear attentive to wisdom and by turning your heart to understanding the mysteries of the Most High. 3 Indeed, if (again, the biggest word in the Bible), you call out for discernment, shout loudly for understanding, if you seek it like silver, if you seek discernment as you would silver, and if you search for discernment as you would like hidden treasure, then will you understand how to fear the Divine, the eternal one, and you will discover knowledge about Elohim /God.
Many have been led to believe that if you “accept” Jesus / Yeshua, then everything else will just happen automatically: But it doesn’t work that way.
Union with God is covenantal. What do you think would happen if you were newly married, or maybe you just had a good friend, and you walked up to them and shook their hand, or gave them a hug, and said “oh it’s so great to see you: I’ve always wanted to know someone like you”; and then you never spoke with them again? You never returned their calls and you never saw them again. How much do you think that relationship would blossom? Probably not very much, right? Or what if you only talked to them only five minutes every month or so?
The relationship probably wouldn’t flourish, would it? It’s the same way with the Most High. This is what He is saying. “If you earnestly and honestly seek Me out, then you will come to understand Me and My ways.” That’s what it says: Proverbs 2:1-5.
Point 2: Transfer your allegiance from your flesh to the Divine God.
When you’re very young, when you’re a baby, you communicate you’re wants and needs. Maybe you need your clothes changed. Maybe you’re hungry. Maybe you’re cold. Maybe you’re wet. Maybe you’re too hot. And so what do you do? You express that in whatever way you’re capable of expressing it, depending upon your age and maturity. When you’re very, very young your physical comfort is your primary concern. Often times that continues on through adulthood.
And so, what the Most High is saying in Romans 6:19, is once you were a slave to your physical / natural wants and needs. Your thoughts were largely limited to things like “I’m cold, I’m hungry, I’m wet, I’m tired, or I’m too hot”. Once you were a slave to your physical needs, even lawlessness. But now you’ve entered into relationship with the Divine Kingdom realm of the Most High, and into relationship with Elohim, God. And so now you are obliged to transfer your allegiance from the physical, natural realm to the Spirit realm because God is Spirit and those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth.
But what is Truth? Truth could also be expressed as Righteousness. So then what is Righteousness? One way to consider truth and righteousness is the ways of the Most High. And how do we know what the ways of the Most High are? Well there are a few primary ways.
Perhaps the most primary way that we can learn His ways is His written Word, beginning in Genesis and going all the way through Revelation. Another very key way to align with the Most High, is by His Spirit, His Spirit bears witness with our spirit, that we are His. For more on that see Romans 8:16.
Another primary way that He communicates with us is through His creation. Every animal, every star, every planet, the sun, even the earth itself, speaks of the majesty and glory of the Most High. Hallelujah!
These are areas in which we can focus on transferring our allegiance from ourselves, from the natural realm, to the Spirit realm. Instead of situational awareness, this could be called “spiritual awareness”.
Along with those things, in every way that the Divine is working through your five senses, He’s also working in some manner spiritually: “By Him all things consist”. That’s what the Scriptures reveal to us. By Yeshua, all things are Held together. If you’re in line with Him then He can speak to you through the natural elements in our physical world.
Mark chapter 12 calls out to the people of God, (Biblical) Israel, and in so doing Yeshua provides us with the “greatest” instruction / commandment: To love Elohim, love God, love others, and love yourself. And He puts all of those on par with each other; all on then same plane.
But then He also says, at the same time, “seek first the Kingdom Realm of God”. In other words, “above all else, seek the Kingdom Realm of the Most High God.
Although it may seem so. those two things are not contradictory: Rather they are complementary. How? Because love is what the Kingdom Realm is all about. Hallelujah! Praise God. So, point number two is “Transfer your allegiance from your flesh to God, the Divine. But again, its a process. It’s all a process.
Point 3: Be transformed into the perfect will of God.
So point one in the process is seek wisdom, knowledge, and understanding. Point two in then process is to take that wisdom, knowledge, and understanding and transfer your allegiance from the physical, natural realm to the Divine realm.
And then we go forward in these thing to point number three which is “be transformed into then perfect will of God”.
After you transfer your allegiance, after you say, okay, I am no longer going to be committed to myself, I am going to be committed to the One who loves me, who has given me life, and who even holds me together, I am now going to be committed wholly and completely to Him.
Yeshua said, I only do what I see then Father doing. He saw the Father through His Spiritual eyes, and then He walked out what He saw then Father doing spiritually in the natural realm.
Yeshua only walked out in the natural realm what He saw the Father doing in the Spirit realm. And that is exactly, precisely how you and I are to live as a part of then Remnant of the Most High God.
So I’m going to read Romans 12:1 for you.
I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God to present your bodies as a sacrifice, alive, holy, and pleasing to God. Which is your reasonable service. 2. Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by then renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve what is the will of God, what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.
I urge you then therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present yourself as a living sacrifice, Holy and pure.
How do you know what Holy and pure are? Well, in the book of Timothy, Apostle Paul said that all Scriptures, ALL Scriptures…
Now, what were “the Scriptures” then? He certainly wasn’t referring to the letter that He was then writing. He was referring to the Tanakh / “Old Testament”; what we now refer to as Genesis to Malachi, according to our Protestant Bibles. I don’t necessarily identify as a Protestant but that’s how the Bible is referred to.
This is the Bible that Apostle Paul was referring to. As you know, we now refer to the Bible as all of the books from Genesis to Revelation. But again, when Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy and said that ALL Scripture is inspired, or, “God breathed” by the Most High, he was referring to the Tanakh – O/T, Genesis to Malachi. And so embracing that is a primary way that we can be transformed through coming to understand what Righteousness is.
Coming to understand through the written word what aligning with the Divine is all about. Hallelujah. Do not be conformed to this present world. Remember that’s what I was talking about before in regards to physical, human bodies. We’re not to conform physically and naturally to the world, but we’re to be transformed by the by the renewing of the mind, your spiritual mind. In other words, your thinking process is to align with the Most High. Hallelujah!
And so, very quickly, here are four ways to be transformed.
A) Be involved in a community of like-minded saints. God works through people. You have to be around them in order for that to happen. The only way to love others and to allow them to love you (the greatest commandment) is to be involved in a fellowship.
B) Study. It takes time. It takes commitment. In the course of life ask yourself what is God telling me Here? What does He say about this particular situation? What should I have said to that person when they said that to me? Search the Scriptures in order to better align with Him. That’s really what these weekly teachings are about: Helping you understand what’s there.
C) Be transformed through prayer. Prayer really escaped me for years. I might even admit decades. I’m so thankful that I can now say that I practice a prayerful lifestyle. I also set aside time for prayer. I do that as much as I can and I wish I could do more. I usually pray at least an hour or so a day. It doesn’t always work out but usually. I’ve also been known to pray for three and four hours a day for days and hours on end consecutively. It is a great blessing to me. Another thing very closely related to prayer is meditation.
D) Meditate. I practice some degree of meditation daily as well. I wish I felt that I could do it more. It’s an important part of the spiritual life.
All of these things are very important for the spiritual life. I know that I kind of emphasized study. But really all of these things are equally as important. So it’s likewise important to be balanced in all of them.
I’m going to go ahead and read for you Romans 12:1 and 2 in the Amplified Bible.
I appeal to you therefore brethren and even beg you in view of all of the mercies of God to make a decisive dedication of your bodies, a precept presenting all of your members and faculties as a living sacrifice, holy, that is devoted and consecrated, and well-pleasing to God. Which is your reasonable service, and spiritual worship, and it’s the intelligent thing to do, that’s what it basically says. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be fashioned after and adapted to its superficial nature. but be transformed, or changed, by the entire renewal of your mind, by its new identity, ideals, and its new attitude, so that you may prove, for yourselves, what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even though you know nothing, which is good and acceptable and perfect in His sight for you.
He has a plan just for you, a destiny established for you. that was written in the book in eternity past. Your name is written in then book. with your destiny. And He’s pleading with you now to pursue Him so that you can fulfill that destiny. Hallelujah. Be transformed. That’s number three and I have presented four ways to be transformed.
So again, the four point to Transformation are:
Be involved in community
Study
Prayer
Meditation
Point 4: Work out your own Salvation.
The Forth point of the Process of coming forth as a part of the Remnant is pretty simple. Well, it’s a simple concept. Not, by any means is it simple to do. The forth point is to work out your own Salvation.
Philippians 2:12 says to work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Work out your salvation with fear and trembling. So, in regards to working out your own salvation, it’s really a very, very sad thing. Whenever I, or someone else mentions righteousness things begin to become tumultuous. It happened to me just this last week.
I was talking to someone about Righteousness, aligning with the Most High God in that way and studying the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. What was the response? Oh no, no, no, no, they said; can’t do that! Because we should approach life only spiritually. Unfortunately they didn’t seem to realize that ALL Scripture is God breathed, God’s words ARE Spirit, and Gods words carry life with it. John 6:64, 2 Tim. 3:16.
And so when we work out our own salvation, it is a matter of coming into alignment with then Most High in spirit, soul, AND body in Word and Truth. But it’s a process. It’s a process that we must be willing to undertake.
This is what Apostle Paul meant when He said to work out your own salvation. For example, when a person has been smoking for many years, decades, whatever, without Divine assistance they usually don’t just throw the cigarettes into the fire, walk away, and then never think about them again. Most addicts have a physical reaction to the lack of nicotine. It’s the same way with most other drugs including alcohol. Sure, you already know that. You have tried to give things up before and found it to be a struggle: Maybe you succeeded and maybe you didn’t on your first try or maybe ever.
Well, Apostle Paul tells us in Philippians 2:12 to work out your own salvation. And so that involves a releasing of yourself; your own desires. A releasing of your natural self so that you can allow the spirit of the Most High, who is residing within you, to come forward from within.
When you release all of these physical addictions, attractions, (things that the Bible would refer to as “lusts of the flesh” (Gal. 5:16)), and surrender yourself to God at the highest level and say, no to our physical desires, we then say to Him “I want what you have, I want what YOU want. Rather than what pleases my physical flesh, I want to be at peace in my Heart with You. I want your shalom in my Heart, I want YOUR plan for my life rather than my own. When we come to the realization that His ways are better than our ways, it becomes easy to work out our salvation and surrender ourselves to Him.
So, work out your own salvation with God with Fear and trembling. To be clear, that doesn’t mean that you “work or earn your way to Heaven as many would say. It simply means that coming into your life as a spirit being, being aligned in union with the Great Spirit of the Most High, takes time. Adjustments need to be made.
Remember earlier I talked about how when you’re very very young, even a newborn, life is all about if you’re dry, if you’re clean, if you’re not too cold, if you’re not too warm, if there aren’t any loud noises around that might be bothering you or if you’re not too hungry.
Many people never mature from that state. But aligning with the Divine is all about learning to deny whatever is keeping you from living a spiritually based life that is in union with the Most High. Deny those things so that you can indeed release them. It’s not about, oh I must, I must, I have to do this, I have to do that or I have to stop this or that. That’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about letting it go – releasing it. Just releasing it and letting go of all that hinders you from reaching your destiny, Heb. 12:1: It can be challenging. Sometimes we need some assistance in that way. But that’s what we’re talking about.
So just real quickly again,
The Four Points of Process Review
1) Seek wisdom, knowledge, and understanding.
2) Transfer your allegiance from your flesh to God the Divine.
3) Be transformed into then perfect will of God.
4) Work out your own salvation.
Again, these are just four points that I sort of pinned out for you because some of us are in this process. If you’re not, or if some of this seems like it is more involved than you need to be, if that’s what you’re thinking when you hear these things, it’s probably because you’re not totally surrendered to the Most High.
Everyone I know of, or who I have even Heard of, that comes into union, alignment with then Most High, goes through some facsimile, of these steps. I’ve seen it time and time again just as I’ve experienced them myself: Not to mention the Scriptures themselves lay these steps out. As I mentioned, it’s a process.
Conclusion
And so be aware and be content in that process. Be confident in the knowledge that the Most High is leading and guiding you through it. That’s important.
These things should help you to not be anxiously thinking that I should do this, or I should do that, or I wish I would have done such and such better. Now sometimes those aren’t necessarily bad thoughts. However it’s important to just rest in the promises of of the Divine; to rest in Yeshua while earnestly seeking Him, sincerely, in our Hearts, but resting at the same time.
This might sound a little contradictory, but like a lot of things. the more you practice, the more you exercise, these things, the easier they become.
All right. Well, these are the four points of process that I’ve laid out for you. if you’re in transition, if your life is being transformed into the things of the Most High, these things will help you. They will help you in the process. If you would like a hand with any of it, feel free to contact me.
May the Most High richly bless you in your journey.
Parson Rayphe
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