Saturday Breakfast in the School of the Spirit
Posted by Brother Freedom
A couple of weeks ago I was asked to re-level this piece of land. So they brought this old 613 [An old Caterpillar scraper]. It was in bad shape. It was bad and it got worse as the day progressed. It had a laser beam that helps control the leveling of the field. And that laser beam was broke and wouldn’t work. It worked sometimes, but other times it wouldn’t work. And the floor of the scraper got to where it was cutting the ground low on one corner, and they wanted me to still finish the day out. And I told them, “It is an impossibility!” And they wanted me to carry dirt ahead of the bowl, which it is not made to do that. So I tried that and it pulled holes out of the ground.
And I told this owner, I said, “This is not going to do it.” And I was praying all the time when I was operating. So he says, “Well, let me call [make a phone call]. Just go ahead and work until dark.”
And I went and it got progressively worse! And I just had a big mess, it looked to me like. If it looked any better it was only in the eyes of someone else, not my eyes.
He got a hold of a contractor in town who had a [newer] 623. It had a laser beam on it. So he said he thought he could get it. He called me that night and said he had gotten it. So I went back the next day. The 623 had a laser beam that I could see. It worked! And there were all these blessings. I said there was a real reference point, because the old machine was like our “old man,” that we cannot succeed with. We are just making it worse day by day with the “old man.” We are getting worse and worse and worse. With the old man we get farther and farther off of where we should be level. We are un-level in the “old man.”
And that 623 had all the features that we have when we have the Baptism in the Holy Ghost. We have HIS presence, because the indicator on that 623 works that says whether we are high or low. A green light on the laser indicator means the 623 is leveling the field perfectly. But if you have one yellow arrow that goes down that means you are a little too high. But this 623 measured within a couple of inches of level. So you kind of keep that machine in the green light position. If you get out of that you don’t know where you are. If you get out of the laser beam you have no lights to tell you what is going on.
So anyway, the 623 came in and I started and, you know, it was no task at all, to do the work. All I had to do was just to keep that bit on the green light. And that is the way life is!
When we have our eyes upon Jesus, we have the gift of God. We have to keep it within that realm that God can speak to us. If we get beyond that realm into sins we get into these problems that brings us out of that level. Then we are fooling ourselves if we say, “I’m in the Spirit of God.” God is only in that “grade level.” And we have got to start moving in the “grade level.” [This analogy is speaking not of a school grade, but grading or leveling ground].
We have got to get in THAT area, then God gives us pardons, “You are up too high. You are down too much. Come up!” That is for us to adjust, to stay on that level.
And the Bible says, “…whatsoever is not of faith is sin.” [Romans 14:23b] If we miss the course it is sin! So we are actually in sin when we get out of God’s level.
Through these machines God revealed a GREAT truth. And with that new machine there was no problem at all! I mean it was joy! It was joy unspeakable. And the first day it was so terrible. My legs were cramped up. The seat on that old machine had no padding. And it cut my leg! And my neck hurt trying to see where they had put that broken indicator. That indicator was sitting clear up on top of the boom of the scraper where I couldn’t even see it! And then when I would get to a certain spot in the field it didn’t even work because it wasn’t mounted right. There were all these wrong things on that old machine.
But on the new machine everything was perfect. All the equipment worked. Everything was in good condition. The seat had a floating cushion suspension. That new machine had all the comforts. And that is the way it is with God! Oh, the glory of God. I feel HIS presence right now!
The Spirit of God is to touch us! We need to get in this. This is a GREAT truth! We need to get away from that old bad machine, “the old man.” We need to get updated. We need to have the power, the anointing of the Spirit. Glory!
I better not go any farther because this…WOW!!
The presence of God was all over Freedom. He had to stop because the Restaurant was not prepared for Brother Freedom if he should get any more blessed.
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