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HEARING
THE INVISIBLE
By Pastor Jack Hayford
OPTASIA:
Meno! Greetings. Come in—sit down. The announcement of your
return and our appointment has just preceeded you. I’m expectant
about our conversation—and to know of the progress of your
assignment.
MENO:
Thank you, Optasia. The Father’s summons directed
I return from earth for a brief season, particularly
to counsel with you regarding the project.
OPTASIA: Let’s see,
this concerns the people who call themselves "The Church On
The Way," correct? As I recall, they have become a people who
please the Father and have permitted us to work with them.
MENO: That is true, but my
coming has to do with essential steps they must be taking soon—or
that report will become historical rather current. True, they have
received our angelic aid to labor with them in spiritual ministry
and spiritual warfare. Now, it appears we must decide how we can
help alert them.
OPTASIA: Alert them to the
Laodicean Syndrome, you mean? Yes...that seems to be a constant
threat to the fruitfulness of this mortal breed. You would think
the Son’s warning to them in the Revelation would be adequate,
but they fall prey to it so often.
MENO: Somehow, the accomplishment
of certain works and the walking in a beginning of wisdom tends
to lull redeemed humans toward spiritual drowsiness. What is the
Father’s directive at this point?
OPTASIA:
He has done nothing more at this point than to direct our counseling
together. They are your assignment, and, as your own name indicates,
the Father has committed Himself to abide
with that people in a distinct way. As your fellow laborer, I have
been told to join you in seeking to advance His will.
MENO:
Then that accounts for my privilege in working with you in particular,
Optasia. For your gift is the awakening and enlargement of vision...as
they on earth call it, "seeing the invisible." My knowledge
of this people would recommend our first line of strategy be an
effort in our realm, which will goad them in their
realm.
OPTASIA: Most of them, I
would guess from the report, are either forgetful or ignorant of
the fact that their worship, their prayer, their unbound seasons
of intercession and supplication, that these—well, has the
pastor taught them concerning the fact that their world is invaded
with power when they do these things?
MENO: Yes, he has. But some
of the more mature ones fall into neglect and sterile habit, and
often their new ones—they are a growing flock, with many babes
in spiritual understanding—are not as careful to hear the deep
truths they should be growing on. However, Optasia, I feel that
your gift for restoring and revealing sight is what we need to bring
to bear upon their situation.
OPTASIA: Fine. I believe
the Father’s mind on the matter is coming to us, and we know
we have the Third One’s blessing on our effort, since it is
the First’s directive that we take this assignment together....
And like earphones pulled from a stereo, the invisible realm tunes
out, I sit back, listening to the buzz of voices outside my door,
a passing car outside, and a jangling telephone. My supposedly "real"
world crowds in.
But before I set aside my musings, I breathe a quick prayer. Lord,
grant my eyes to see the real battles, the real issues, the real
dangers, the real opportunities that intersect my path a thousand
times a day. Wake me from a sleepy, careless state of mind. Protect
me from the hypnotic hum of activities that make the eyes of my
heart grow heavy. I ask it for me...that I might warn those I love. |
"Brethren,
having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living
way, which He consecrated for us..." Hebrews 10:19-20
  Jack
Hayford Ministries
14800 Sherman Way, Van Nuys, CA 91405-2233
(800) 776-8180 * FAX: (818) 779-8411
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