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"MOVING FROM SPIRITUAL BABES TO MATURE HEIRS"
by Ryan Wyatt
Abiding Glory Ministries
www.abidingglory.com
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 About
Ryan Wyatt:
Ryan Wyatt, founder of Abiding Glory
Ministries, is a revivalist with a burning passion to see the church become the
very habitation of God on earth. Ryan has traveled full-time with Healing Revivalist
Todd Bentley, ministering in his conferences, churches, and mass miracle crusades
throughout the world seeing thousands saved, healed, and delivered by the power
of God. Ryan is ordained with Fresh Fire Ministries and now travels throughout North
America and the world as an
Associate Ministry
of Fresh Fire and also with his own itinerant ministry, Abiding Glory Ministries.
Ryan, his wife Kelly, and son Anson live in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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I would like to both prophesy something to the Body
of Christ and teach the Body of Christ into the fulfillment of the prophecy. I recently
spent the day with Bob Jones (the prophet) and one of the clearest things he told
me is that there is an awesome anointing being released at this time to write and
impart to people through prophetic writing and teaching.
The Lord has been speaking very clearly to me lately about His desire for His people
to GROW UP! The verse he gave me is Galatians 4:1,
"Now I say that the
heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is
master of all." (NKJV)
God is saying that it is time for
the seeds that have been planted from heaven to grow and mature and produce fruit.
Who are these seeds of heaven? The seeds are you and me! At the time of your
salvation experience, you were born again of the Spirit and the seed of heaven was
conceived within you. I recently wrote an article on
"Birthing Manifestations
of the Realm of Heaven on Earth" where I spoke about Jesus being conceived within
us at the moment of salvation and our calling to "bring forth" the Son of God just
as Mary brought forth the Son into this world. Right after completing this word,
the Lord gave me another encounter and released the word you are reading now. Let
me tell you what happened.
"I FOUND MYSELF IN A FOREST
COVERED WITH GRAY ASH"
I entered the realm of the spirit and found myself in a forest covered with a gray
substance, like ash. It seemed as if the entire land was dead. When I looked at
myself, all I saw was a nasty gray color. In the distance, I saw one single ball
of brilliant light floating in the air. I walked towards the light. As I got closer,
the light began to move away from me as if it was beckoning me to follow. The ball
of light approached a wall and passed right through it. I examined the wall where
the light passed through and discovered a door. However, this door was like no other
door I've ever seen. This door was very narrow and only about waist high. I got
down on my knees to open the door, and I passed through to the other side. The next
thing I saw was a portal-like opening in the wall. I passed through it and entered
back into the land of gray. I looked totally different than I had before. I was
covered in the most brilliant, shimmering, golden light from head to toe. The light
emanating from my being lit up the entire forest. I watched as people raised their
heads to look upon the light and began to walk towards me. The encounter was over.
"THE LORD IS INVITING US
TO EXPERIENCE EVERYTHING THAT IS OFFERED US"
The Lord immediately began to reveal to me the prophetic symbolism and meaning of
the vision. The dead land is this natural realm, and the gray ash is the spirit
of this world trying to cover up and suffocate the life of the people. The ball
of light was a seed from heaven coming as the voice of God and beckoning me to come
into His realm. The short and narrow door was a prophetic picture of the posture
that is required to enter the realm of the Kingdom and dwell in the Lord's presence.
Entering the door on my knees was symbolic of entering the Lord's presence with
humility and reverence. By spending time "on the other side," in the realm of the
Kingdom, the seed of heaven grew until the deposit of heaven within me became the
atmosphere I carried around me. I then "became" the portal, or door, between the
two worlds and, walking back into this fallen world as a person full of light, attracted
the unbelievers still living in darkness.
This vision was a message from the Lord's heart, inviting us, as believers, to experience
everything that is offered to us. The Body of Christ is being called to grow up
and begin to live in and function in our inheritance. What is our inheritance? To
experience the Lord the way Adam and Eve experienced Him in the Garden of Eden.
God wants His people to be restored to that place of intimate friendship once again.
It is those who have an intimate friendship with God who will be used as instruments
for God's glory!
How do we come to this place of divine exchange with the Lord? Well, first we must
realize that we are already complete in Him.
WE ARE COMPLETE IN HIM
Colossians 1:27 speaks of the mystery of Christ
in us, the Hope of Glory:
"To them God
willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the
Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory." (NKJV)
Colossians
2:9-10 says:
"For in Him dwells
all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the
head of all principality and power." (NKJV)
At the moment of our salvation, we
received within our spirits the most complete and perfect impartation from heaven
ever given to man: Jesus Himself. Everything God is ever going to do for us was
already done and completed when he imparted Himself within us. How could we ever
receive anything better or more complete than God Himself? All the power, anointing,
revelation and glory of heaven now reside within you and me. Even more than that,
we are now a direct link, or gateway, for heaven to touch earth. Because, not only
is Christ seated within us, but He is also seated at the right hand of the Father
in Heavenly places, and we are seated there with Him (Eph. 2). The portal from heaven
to earth is God's people.
So, if we are complete in Him, then why are we not seeing the manifestations of
heaven on earth in our everyday lives? Because the seed of heaven within us must
grow and consume every soulish and fleshly area of our lives until we are totally
yielded to the Holy Spirit in every way. The natural process for bringing life into
the world is first for conception to take place, then the growth of the baby, and
then birth. Jesus was conceived in the womb of Mary, but growth still had to take
place before birth.
MOVING FROM SPIRITUAL BABES TO MATURE
HEIRS
When you are born again, no matter what age you are physically, you are a spiritual
baby. You are most definitely a son of God and you are most definitely a co-heir,
but still a baby.
Galatians 4:1
"Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from
a slave, though he is master of all." (NKJV)
Let me put this in words that directly
relate to our lives at this time. We, as believers, are sons of God and co-heirs
with Christ. We are "masters of all," just as the scripture states above, but if
we are still children then it is as if we are slaves.
In a kingdom, you can be the son of
a King and everyone knows that everything in that kingdom belongs to you, but you
don't begin to operate as a ruler in that kingdom until you come of age and mature
to be a man. Once you grow up and mature, then you begin to operate in your inheritance
and rule in the kingdom.
It is exactly the same in God's Kingdom. The reason we don't have more of His glory
and power manifesting through our lives is because many of the Body of Christ are
still babes in the spirit. Look at these scriptures with me:
Hebrews 5:12-14
"For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you
again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk
and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word
of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food belongs to those who are of full
age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern
both good and evil." (NKJV)
1 Corinthians 3:1-3
"And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal,
as to babes in Christ. I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now
you are not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; for you are
still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you
not carnal and behaving like mere men?" (NKJV)
If we want our inheritance, then we
have to grow up. What is our inheritance? Our inheritance is to eat of the solid
food of heaven; divine and secret mysteries, great power and anointing from the
Holy Spirit, and the very glory of God as our own atmosphere!
WE ARE GOD'S FIELD, GOD'S BUILDING,
AND GOD'S BODY
The analogy given to us in scripture is that the kingdom of heaven is planted within
us as a seed and it is intended to grow and expand within us and on the earth. In
1 Corinthians 3:9 it says that "You are God's field, you are God's building." Just
up from this verse it talks about how men of God planted and watered, but God gives
the increase to our lives. Just after this verse it talks about believers being
the temple of the Holy Spirit.
God has given us the five-fold ministry so that the body of Christ might grow into
a mature man with the fullness of Christ and no longer be children.
Ephesians 4:11-14a:
"And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some
pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry,
for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith
and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the
stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children." (NKJV)
Over the last several decades, the
Lord has worked diligently to restore the five-fold ministry within the church.
Now it's time for the body to be equipped, mature into a man, operating in the fullness
of Christ, and no longer be children!
Another great example from scripture about seeds and growth is Isaiah 55. There
is an invitation to come to the waters and drink freely. This chapter talks about
not wasting our money (time, energy, attention, etc...) on things that do not satisfy,
but rather we should come and drink of the waters by listening to the Lord and hearing
His words. If we will be a people that listen to Him, then we will be leaders and
commanders, and nations we do not know will run to us because of the Lord's glory
upon us. The passage then goes on to talk about something very interesting.
Isaiah 55:8-11
"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways," says the Lord.
"For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways,
and My thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain comes down from, and the snow
from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth
and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My
word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to me void, but it shall
accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it."
(NKJV)
This passage tells us that God's words
that come from His mouth are actually seeds that are planted and sent with a purpose
to accomplish on the earth.
John 6:63
says:
"It is the Spirit
who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit,
and they are life." (NKJV)
The very words from the mouth of God
are impartations of life to us! And what is the purpose of hearing God as a friend?
Isaiah 55:12-13
"For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace; The mountains and the
hills shall break forth into singing before you, and all the trees of the field
shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree, and
instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree; and it shall be to the Lord
for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off." (NKJV)
We are to be unto the Lord for a name.
When we experience intimacy with the Lord and hear the intimate words of His mouth,
conception takes place, and fruit comes forth! Instead of thorns and briers coming
up in our life, we will have the cypress (strength) and the myrtle tree (victory).
THE NATURE OF THE KINGDOM IS TO EXPAND
AND HAVE DOMINION ON THE EARTH
The Bible says that the Kingdom of Heaven is within you. We know from scripture
that the nature of the Kingdom is to grow and dominate. Look at
Mark 4:30-32,
"To what shall we
liken the kingdom of God? Or with what parable shall we picture it? It is like a
mustard seed which, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds
on earth; but when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all herbs, and
shoots our large branches, so that the birds of the air may nest under its shade."
Likewise, the kingdom is sown within
us at salvation and it must grow into a fruitful tree!
Look at Daniel
2:35b, 44:
"And the stone that
struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. Vs. 44:
And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall
never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall
break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever." (NKJV)
The Kingdom of God is meant to expand
and have dominion over all other kingdoms. The Garden of Eden was a prophetic symbol,
or picture, of God's Kingdom and government. God's original intention for the garden
was for it to be tended by Adam and Eve, its borders to be expanded, and its government
to cover the earth!
We are now God's garden, God's field, God's building, and God's body and we are
called to bring the Kingdom of heaven to earth with mighty demonstrations of dominion
and authority! But, first, that garden within us must grow and take dominion over
every lesser kingdom that remains in our lives.
GROWING IN FAVOR WITH GOD AND MAN
Did you know that Jesus Himself actually grew in favor with His Father? God's love
is not partial because He loves everyone the same, no matter what our accomplishments
are. However, God is partial with His favor upon man. An example of this is the
fact that there are some who are manifesting more of the Kingdom of God in their
lives than others around them. In going back to the analogy of the heir as a child
within his father's kingdom, we will realize that the Father loves his son just
as much when he's a child as when he is an adult. However, the father will give
him more favor when the child becomes a man and the King promotes him to a place
of rulership in the Kingdom. Look at the second chapter of Luke:
"And the Child grew
and became strong in spirit, filled with wisdom; and the grace of God was upon Him."
vs.40
"And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men." vs.52
(NKJV)
Jesus grew strong in spirit and, therefore,
became someone capable of receiving solid food from heaven. We are created from
two different realms. Genesis 2:7 says that we are created from the combination
of the dust of the ground (natural realm) and the breath of life (spiritual realm)
and we became a living being or soul. It's possible for us to be quite old physically
and still be a baby spiritually. We as believers need to exercise our spiritual
senses, become more familiar with the spiritual realm through intimacy with God,
and become mature spiritual people full of His fullness!
Peter came to a place of such fullness that he carried a healing atmosphere all
around him in Acts 5:15-16:
"...So that they brought
the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the
shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some of them. Also a great multitude gathered
from around the surrounding cities to Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those
who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed." (NKJV)
THE LORD'S HEART FOR THIS HOUR!
Let's not limit how much of God we can have and express. It's time for the Body
of Christ to GROW UP and move from babes to mature sons of God and the spotless
bride of Christ!
I sincerely believe that the Lord is issuing a clear notice to the Body of Christ
that it is time to mature and begin to operate in nothing less than our full inheritance.
Part of our inheritance is to carry the realm of heaven within us, upon us, and
around us. Let's get serious with God and go after Him like never before. Let's
begin to allow that seed of incredible potential within us to be released and display
the Glory of God to the world!
"Father, I pray for every person reading this that you would speak to them so
clearly about their own lives. Stir up the Body of Christ to maturity. Overshadow
us with your Spirit and cause Your Kingdom within us to grow and expand and have
dominion over every area of our lives. I pray that mighty demonstrations of Your
character, Your Glory, and Your power would begin to spring forth from Your people!
In Jesus Name."
by Ryan Wyatt
Abiding Glory Ministries
www.abidingglory.com
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Ryan Wyatt's Itinerary:
August 20 - 22
Triumphant Life Church
5651 New Perry Highway
Erie, Pennsylvania
Contact: Greg Buzzanco
Contact Number: 814-864-3984
August 29
Knoxville Healing Service
HOSTED BY HEALING ROOMS OF KNOXVILLE
Knoxville, Tennessee
Contact: Len Sisson
Contact Number: 865-671-1441
Email: hradmin@healingrooms-knoxtn.com
Web Site: www.healingrooms-knoxtn.com/conferences.htm
September 8
Miracle Healing Service
Van Nest Assembly of God
Bronx, New York
Contact: David Hernquist
Contact Number: 718-824-4067
Email: vnaog755@aol.com
Web Site: www.vannestassembly.org
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