Ministry Wednesday: The Way into the Deep

Ministry Wednesday: The Way into the Deep

Psalms 42
7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

8 Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

There is a secret place where the Most High dwells, there He wants us to be. His waters are in the deep, from where we must serve His own. His realms are beyond the eyes of men, yet from there we must show forth His grace.

The flesh knows not the way. The intellect cannot decipher it. It's not in the wisdom of the wise. It's not in the cravings of man's desires. His ways are past finding out, covered in the veil of light from the activities of the sons of men. The Place is far from the religions of men, they only grope except He shows His face.

We, by way of ministry are called to show the way. We are called to break through the veil and to serve both sides the divide. We are raised to lead men there, where they'll be one with the Invisible. We are to pierce through the darkness and bring light from the deep. Not to be satisfied with the ephemeral but to go beyond the facade because of the people He loves.

So where is the way to the deep? How do we pierce the darkness? We must first understand that the way is not in us. It is in Him. It is Him and He must bid us come. We must seek Him to find it out. Seeking Him daily, moment by moment. When we reach Him, we then can follow His footsteps and darkness becomes light to us.

He didn't call us to grope, He called us to follow. He didn't call us into darkness but into light. He has called us into the Way, He, the way! He bids us come!

But we must strip the veil. We must peel the flesh for He dwells in the spirit and not even in our minds. He dwells not in the letter, He dwells in the sprit. Yet the mind will lead the way, the letter will tell.
We must go beyond that which make men sons of wrath, we must go beyond the desires of the flesh and of the mind, we are no more children of wrath by nature.

We must not fight as one who beats the air, we must not run as one who runs for no prize. If we are to serve that which would survive the test of fire, building with gold, silver and precious stones that are hewn from the quarries of the deep.

We must not have confidence in the flesh being of the circumcision which is not by hands but of those who worship God in the spirit.

The way is to mortify the flesh and to put it under if we are to fight with utmost certainty and run for the prize. Here, the belly must not become God. Here, we must set our eyes on things above and not on things on the earth. Here, we must choose who we would serve, God or mammon. Surfeiting and drunkenness won't make it here. One day fast, six days flesh, or six days fast and one day flesh, none would do. He will only keep him in perfect peace whose mind is constantly and consistently stayed on Him, who depends totally on Him in all things. No leaven defiling the lump.

Not by fleshly anger against the unrighteous which sent Moses into the desert as a fugitive, but by the zeal of the house of God that consumes, which cleansed the house of God of blood sucking merchant men.

It is this zeal that consumes the things of the world and fires up the love of the Father within. That sets aside and sanctifies from the gold, the girls and the fleshly glory that blind. It is the fire that burns up the lusts of the eyes, the lusts of the flesh and the pride of life.

So that the Apostle won't be a novice filled with pride unto destruction and the prophet won't be filled with lying spirits but speak the truth in and out of the spirit. So that the evangelist won't be trapped and be converted in worldliness, the pastor won't fleece the sheep to satisfy his lusts and the teacher won't serve itching ears to line his pocket and his popularity.

So that none will be a cast away after preaching to others.

The zeal of the Lord is the Spirit of the Lord. The One we are born of, by whose winds we are borne. The One who fills us up, who also bathes us in His fiery fluidity, like an engine filled with oil but would also work in oil. His rivers come from the deep and flows into the depths leading us there with His quickening. He leads into the deep, He fills us and flows out of us to satisfy the thirsts of His people. Without Him we can't serve. It's Him we serve. Without Him the plates are empty and the people hunger still. His river is the way into the Deep, He reveals through the reflections of His sur-Face, we follow His river into the deep as it ministers life to His people flowing out of our own bellies too.

Choose the deep. There is the secret place, close to the heart of the Father, though hidden from the sight of men. Even if not popular, those who should know will know. Even if not for show, those who should see will see. And there shall be fulfilment and not casting away.

Good morning servants of God, Most High!