By Pastor ChyChy Ayodele
You heart must crave God’s Holiness. The Holiness
of God as revealed in His Word. This is holiness that cannot be attained by man
through acts of the flesh. No human effort can bring it about. It can only be
attained through spiritual means. This is the Holiness our Lord wants to give
to us by His Grace revealed in redemption. It is the Holiness of God.
Moses was on Mount Sinai for
forty days and forty nights until he was transfigured. His face shone with
God's light, he had remained with God for so long, beheld Him face to face
until he was bearing God’s glory as manifested on his face.
Moses came back to Earth with the glory and the Ten
Commandments on tablets of stone containing many instructions, ordinances and
statutes from God. The Israelites hid from his face the same way they hid from
God's appearance on the mountain, saying "Moses you go up, we cannot come,
we fear this awesome, terrible sight, lightening, thunder, earthquake and
dread.
“Whatever He tells you, come tell us and we would
listen", the Israelites had said to Moses. They hid from Moses, asking him
to veil his face. As such, they didn't get the glory by going directly to God
and when God put the glory on Moses so they could behold it on a human level without
fear and be transformed, (have it rub off on them), they rejected it out of
fear.
So Moses simply gave them the written Commandments,
the laws of God amounting to a spiritual letter without divine spirit. In the
end, they received it as a yoke, a heavy burden they could not bear.
None of the Israelites could attain the glory of
God since they avoided the Lord’s face and none could follow to the laws of God
because they considered it too stringent and rigid. So they just lived in
religion, striving wearily to obey God’s laws and failing and thus living under
condemnation continually. “It is not by power or by might, but by my spirit”,
says The Lord.
This is the spirit of religion taking people out of
Grace back into the bondage of the laws of Moses. No human effort can produce Holiness.
Holiness is the nature of God imparted into our spirits as new creations in
Christ and realised only as we dwell in His presence, like Moses did over long
seasons.
In order to maintain Holiness, one has to spend long
seasons in God’s presence for durations of perhaps days, months or years. These
seasons must be repeated habitually until spiritual changes are manifested and
perceptible. Because of the forty days that Moses spent with God up in the
mountain, the Holiness of God was transferred to him, which was manifested in
the glow on his face.
God has already blessed all of us with the power
and capability to seek Him in order to receive His Holiness. Standing before God's
burning presence purifies the soul, purging it of iniquities, destroying and
actually removing from it the very spiritual substance and essence of sin, non-regeneration,
dross and impurity.
This is why you must find the manifest presence of
God quickly through prayer, then begin to dwell daily, habitually, seasons on
your knees, using every given opportunity in your waking moments in your life,
dwelling all the time in His Holiness.
You dwell in God’s Holiness not because you are so
strong-willed and disciplined to do so, but because you are so aware of your
helplessness, weakness, and the hopelessness of your ever attaining true
holiness without turning to Him continuously.
Live beyond the veil, ministering from there in
high anointing but never coming out because you know that you cannot make it
outside of Him and His Holiness. It is a revelation you must be conscious of in
your spiritual.
Many preach Holiness as conducts, acts, behaviour
you must attain. However, you cannot attain God's Holiness through acts of the
flesh. It can only be attained by deep spiritual means, the kind He wants to
bestow on us through the Cross.
God's true holiness is attainable by all, including
the weak and the strong willed because it comes by Grace. But what comes by
Grace is more easily received by the weak because they do not have an
alternative to it.
But the religious, self-disciplined, strong willed,
including the Jews who had practiced religion for ages, Pharisees, Sadusees, Teachers
of the law, Priests and many others are too proud and think they are
self-sufficient to accept it.
That's why Paul had so much of a battle with the
Jews as he sought to preach Grace to the Gentiles who were generally weak willed,
having no history of religious discipline. The Jews and the Gentiles symbolise
for the context of this writing the strong-willed and the weak-willed
respectively.
The Grace of God comes with Holiness imparted into
our new creation spirits and realised in actual communion with God as we begin
to reflect this same glory from glory to glory. This Holiness will continue to
evolve as a result of changed conduct, not pretense, no hypocrisy but through
true obedience to God.
The pathway to receiving God’s Holiness remains the
same. Moses’ face started to shine with the Holiness of God as he dwelt before
God for long periods of time. Jesus was transfigured as He constantly knelt
down to pray to His Father, God. The angels of God shine so bright with God's
glory because they are always in God's presence (Matthew 28:1-2)(Revelations
18:1).
We must labour first in constant prayer to break through
the veil of flesh abduction and gain access into the Realm of Almighty God,
which manifests the presence of God. Then we must begin to effortlessly dwell there,
passively in rest as we are transformed ever increasingly.
It is imperative that we resist and fight off the
distractions of Earth that seeks to pull us out of there to attend feverishly
to natural things by overnight instead of by faith and trust in God and His
supernatural help.
This is more than getting needs met through prayers
which anyone can get by faith formula. This is the place of transformation in
deep communion with God. And once you secure the breakthrough in prayer, you
can now just dwell there, until it becomes habitual, enabling you to can carry
His presence with you everywhere you go.
Holiness - The Splendour Of God
The Do's in God’s Commandments becomes response to
divine function (that comes as natural as your own desire) to do righteous
acts, works, pray, witness, fellowship, minister and perform charity as you
experience oneness conscious union of your soul with God.
The Don’ts in God’s Commandments become your
response to divine checks within you and the sense of His nature (holiness
within you), divine restraints in you like your own such as unwillingness, disgust,
reluctance to comply with unrighteousness, unclean desire, fleshly excesses and
desires, a check and restraints for moderation in all things.
All this because at points of decisions, trails, temptations,
negative or positive thoughts that compel you to turn to Him who is within you
and abide holding still as He destroys the evil impulse that wants to hold you
and free you of its compulsion.
Isn't all this so marvelous? Turning to the
manifest presence of God, intensifying your gaze, your awareness of Him at all
times. But you must first discover and possess that manifest presence of God!
Pastor ChyChy Ayodele
is the President and Pastor of Supernatural Life Ministries Global in Abuja ,
Nigeria
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