Identifying Blockages to Moving with God by Bill Click

By Bill Click
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This week, rather than a lengthy message on the depths of intercession, I want to offer you a litmus for determining how current you are with the Spirit of God. Basically, evaluating to what degree you can and do initiate the Covenant Jesus came to establish. While I realize that revelatory descriptions of the encounters we can experience with God can have great value, without embracing our status for taking part in them, they can become of no worth whatsoever.
 
It is clear to me there are 3 easily identifiable blockages to moving with God that everyone can either say: "that applies to me," or "I really don't have that problem." In fact, I really believe this will let you see your life in a new way as you continue to read.
 
They are:

I must be in a public gathering of anointed leaders to be able to sense and feel the Spirit of God.

If our lives so grieve the Spirit by the daily choices we make based on the life-priorities we set, then what is above may very well be our present status. God designed for each one to know Him in the Spirit, and to be able to sense His presence by their personal spirit. "An hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth" (John.4:23-24).
 
We must be honest with God about what we are really seeking. Am I truly seeking the Kingdom of God, or is it God's endorsement for a life on my own terms in which I occasionally turn to God for assistance? (Mt.6:33)

I must receive prayer from others before I am freed from dilemmas that rise up and remain unresolved in my mind, will and emotions.

The Lord gave us His Spirit so that we could fight the good fight of faith by donning His armor and thinking with His mind (Eph.6:10-18; 1Cor.2:9-16). Lies from Hell, soulish raging against the Spirit by our own (or others) unrenewed minds, emotional ties with the fears of loved ones or the railings of societal ills….they will continue (John.16:33). The key to being able to discern what God is saying and doing can be summarized by what Jesus said: "If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is of God or whether I speak from Myself" (John.7:17). When we really want what God wants for us, we know what to receive, reject, stand on, or rebuke and kick away from us
 
I must be ministered to by others (activated or imparted to publicly) before I feel able, worthy or confident to pray for others effectively.
 
For us to be "living up to what we have already attained," we must develop and discipline ourselves to "maintain and sustain" our reservoir of functionality as members of the Body of Christ (Php.3:16). If the previous sentence only applies to ministers (in your thinking), then you either need to realign yourself with those who will equip and release you to flow in the Spirit, or you need to shake off the old religious wineskin that is preventing your mind from being renewed. The Lord has made it clear: "to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good….one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills" (1Corinthians 12:7, 11). Jesus said: "you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth" (Acts 1:8).
 
Use the tools God has given you. Don't mourn what doesn't yet seem to be, or let the soul realm take you to places in your mind, will and emotions that will prevent you from entering and walking in the Spirit.
 
Rise up in what He has given you which is yours forever, and move about in it as land that belongs to you and only you. Take ownership of the deposit He has placed in you and only you. And as you do, you won't need to go to church to get refreshed, renewed, freed or activated, you'll go with a testimony of how you have been in the presence all week.
 
Then, you won't need to be prayed over, you'll either be promoted in the house or booted out of the house by God or those who don't want life, and you'll take it with you wherever you go. Then, you'll be living the life of witness you've been called to and completely empowered for.
 
Selah. 
 
Bill Click

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