Summer 1981
The Revelations of Christ
Through the Movings of the Holy Spirit
Jacob Danner
Pinecrest Alumni

We know little about the supernatural and have hardly begun to understand the great depths of God. Just when we feel we have them figured out, we realize we did not really perceive what He was doing. The Lord often desires to move, but seldom do we recognize or perceive this as we should. Some try to control, help, stop, or capitalize on it. This grieves the Holy Spirit, and He moves on to another place. We must learn to take our hands off the moving of the Holy Spirit in our midst and learn to flow with Him. He is seeking those who are willing to become a vehicle for a further expression of this realm of the supernatural in the revelation of Himself to His people.

God’s moving is sovereign; His broodings and refreshings, His signs and wonders, manifestations of His presence and His speaking voice. The Lord has been trying to get our attention for so long. He is very patient and gracious. Psalm 106:7 expresses this very thought. “Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked Him at the sea, even at the Red sea.” Verse 12 tells us, “then believed they His words, they sang His praise. They son forgot His works; they waited not for His counsel.” The chapter goes on to describe their murmuring, lusting, and how they tempted God. He had done so many signs and wonders before them, yet they failed to acknowledge God in all this. They did not understand that He brought them out of Egypt in order to bring them into a relationship with Him. They did not wait for His counsel, the further unveiling of His plan, or the revelation of his purpose in their deliverance. They were not content to exercise a patient dependence upon God, leaving it to Him to fulfill His own purpose in His own way. But they continued to walk in their own ways, rather than submit to His rule. They did not know the Lord nor seek to develop a personal relationship and walk with Him.

Psalm 103:7 tells us, “He made known His ways unto Moses, His acts unto the children of Israel.” Moses had something different in His life than the children of Israel. Moses had a personal relationship with the Lord. He not only saw the acts of God, but he understood their purpose and objective. The thing that set Moses apart from the children of Israel was that he saw into the very heart of God.

The Lord chose Israel for Himself to be a holy people, a special people, but they missed His call. He is still moving and the portion He set aside for the children of Israel is available to us today through our Lord Jesus Christ. As a whole, we are still missing His call. Many have seen great revival. Thousands have been saved and filled with the Holy Spirit; yet, little depth has been produced in the lives of many who were involved. The problem stems from a lack of relationship with the Lord, of a continual and progressive relationship. In these revivals, people saw all the signs and manifestation of the outward. As things were beginning to build, they channeled them into areas that they were accustomed to, ways that they could understand. Instead of letting God do a new thing, they boxed Him in and the revival eventually died out. We are so accustomed to a set way of worship, ministry, evangelizing, expression, etc., that when the Lord begins to move, we don’t wait to see what His purpose is. We use the spirit, and the momentum of the Spirit, to further our own means and methods when the Lord is trying to establish something different than we have ever known. We have limited God to our own experience.

His effectiveness in our lives is lessened because we are looking to our own methods and forms to accomplish the purpose of God. The Lord wants to do a new thing today and we limit Him. We grieve His Spirit because our concepts have confined Him and have not given Him liberty to express Himself. The Spirit of God is creative and expressive. We have failed to recognize a very important thing that the “it” we so often call the moving of the Spirit is a “He”! The presence of the Lord, the anointing is “Him.” It is the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is Jesus in our midst. He is revival. He is our praise. He is our glory. In Hosea 6:3 it says, “He shall come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.” The emphasis is on Him coming to us and not on the rain. He is behind all the signs and wonders. Through all the manifestations, God has sought to reveal His Son to us, but we have not come to know Him as we should. We have not been sensitive to His person.

In these days, the Lord is interested in our relationship to Him, in our knowing Him. He sees us as His finished product. His desire is that we might be like Him. Deuteronomy 29:29 says, “The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever,” and in Proverbs 25:2, “It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.” There is much we will not understand about the Lord until we stand before Him. But there is a knowledge of God that has been hid in Christ and not made known in other generations, but this knowledge is presently being revealed by His Spirit to all that will hear. If we would know the movings of the Spirit, we must first know Him.

Thank the Lord for His mercy. His faithfulness is above our shortcomings. He shall do all He has promised. His purposes shall be fulfilled, and He will conform a people into His image. There will be a people that know Him, walk with Him, and partake of Him experientially. They shall recover the earth and restore God’s authority among men. His kingdom shall be established in the earth. This people the Lord has formed for Himself, and they shall show forth His praise. Today, we are to come to know Him better and learn to move in His present purpose and will.