The
word of the Lord says that God’s thoughts and ways are higher than our thoughts
and ways and how He will take the foolish things to confound the wise. In the book of Acts, chapter 10 describes one
of many accounts, where the wisdom of God superseded the wisdom of man.
In
order for God to do anything on the earth, He needs a man to cooperate with His
agenda. We know in part and we prophecy
in part and NO ONE person, knows or have all of what is in God’s mind. The Bible is filled with the wonders,
splendors and the many facets of His demonstrations. If we could box God in and depict His next
move, He would not be God and we would not need faith to please Him.
Acts
10 reveals God’s will to bring about salvation to the Gentiles because of one
man’s reverence toward Him. This account
also reveals that God is not a witch and cannot ZAP His plans or snap His
fingers to get things done; but how He carefully works through people to
release His purpose. God gave Cornelius
instructions to search out a man name Peter.
Now what makes Peter so special -- is that he was one of the 12
disciples, the one who walked on water, the one who cut off the soldier ear at
Jesus’ defense, the one who received revelation from the Father about who Jesus
was, one of the 3 in Jesus’ inner court, the one who denied knowing Jesus, and
the one who preached at Pentecost where 3,000 souls were saved. However, no matter what Peter’s past resume
was, God had to prepare him for his next assignment that would go against his
logic. While Peter was in a trance, God
spoke three times, “Don’t call unclean, what I have called clean.” That word prepared Peter to go with the men
who appeared at his door.
Peter’s
ability to keep following the leadership of the Spirit enabled God to carry out
His full plan of salvation to the Gentiles.
Many times, we start off following God, but somewhere in route, we bring
too much of our own logic, man-made prodigals, religious (old-wineskin)
mentalities into God’s playing field, which hinders the purposes of the
Kingdom.
Peter,
represents the cylinder as well as leaders and generals in the Kingdom;
however, Cornelius represents the key, and the remnant that will not look like
the present leaders and how people are doing it now. When the key and the cylinder come together
it unlocks the door in God’s Kingdom that releases what Heaven wants to release
on the earth. Here lies the
problem. If Peter would have gotten into
his own thoughts when he approached Cornelius, it would have robbed God of what
He was releasing in the earth. The door
would have never opened because God needs the key and the cylinder to come
together the way He purposed it to unlock His greater purpose.
As
it is in the natural, so it is in the spirit; keys have been uniquely cut for
its cylinder; likewise, so is the person that God joins. Many times, senior leaders are developing emerging leaders after their own order, principles and what they want and not
so much the order and principles of the Kingdom of God. When we do that, we end up “un-cutting” the
uniqueness in the key that the Father crafted; and the key the Father crafted
was to unlock something significant that the Father is releasing. One
person will NEVER be the key, cylinder and the door. Be
careful that you are not fighting God concerning who He joined you with,
because you want to dictate, control and manipulate the relationship that God
joined. When that happens, it robs God
of the greater demonstration that He intended by the two coming together. We all have a voice and we are all pieces of God’s puzzle, just like we are all apart of the tapestry of the Kingdom.
Karen M. Presley
Kingdom Ambassador
www.karenpresley.org
