COUPLES OF DESTINY VI
Genesis 2:13, “The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the one which encompasses the whole land of Cush.” Gihon means break through. We need a break through into the realm of the kingdom power, into the spirit man that the inner man becomes mightier than the outer man; that the inner man out grows the outer man; that the Spirit overpowers my emotions. The only way to do that is to have a break through and enter into the kingdom. The kingdom does not just come to us, we must become like a child. We must enter the kingdom through much tribulation. We must enter the gate to enter the kingdom and become Christ-like. When we enter, the tribulations of our life will not mar our nature in Christ.
Genesis 2:14, “The name of the third River is Hiddekel; it is the one that goes toward the east of Assyria.” Hiddekel means arrow fast. That means that the break through I have is a continuous break through, a life style of breaking. Arrow fast means that we respond to dying to self. We can look at the story of Elisha as he was dying and his sickness was unto death. The king came to visit him, and he told Elisha that he must overcome the Syrians. (2 Kings 13:14-19) Elisha told him to take a bow and some arrows, and open the east window, and shoot the arrow, which was an arrow of deliverance from Syria. Then he told the king to strike the ground with the remaining arrows. The king struck the ground three times, but Elisha was angry and said that he should have struck the ground five or six times; then Syria would have been totally destroyed. The king conquered the Syrians, but he never completely overcame them.
Some of us fight against things, but we never overcome because the sorrows of our lives take away the flow of response to God. We pray and pray and we think God gives us a revelation from our prayer, but that revelation is not a response, it is a reaction from our prayer. There has to come a response from us to God. Some of us wait and pray twenty years for one man because we want to make him perfect. Some of us pray for one person all our life, but we cannot conquer a nation because we cannot trust God. It is not that we should not care, but we need to respond to God when He speaks to us and prompts us by His Spirit. By the time we pray about it, we have changed our mind. God didn’t change. We changed because we did not move in the heat of the Spirit and respond.
When we respond to God it brings us to the fourth river, the Euphrates, which means the river of fruitfulness, sweet and lovely. These are the boundaries that keep me healthy. It is an environment where we can make relationships that will last for eternity. It is the environment that will show forth Christ.
In His Love,
Sigi
Devotions
Posted: September 2006