Beloved Ones, when you meet with Me face to face, is it for wrestling or for worship? I will bless either way because you are Mine and because it is My nature to bless. I can bless wherever I find faith to believe in Me, but…the results will be different according to your faith, your focus, and the kind of fruit-bearing seed that you are sowing. There is a sowing and reaping principle in everything. When you sow to the flesh, you reap of the flesh; and when you sow to the spirit, you reap of the spirit.
Jacob met Me face to face in Peniel and he wrestled with Me for a blessing. He wrestled with Me until the break of dawn thinking that I did not want to bless him. I remained resisting him because I longed to give him a greater blessing than the one that he sought. He had an agenda. He sought a natural blessing and in the end that is what he got. He was redeemed from his old identity and restored to all that was rightfully his in the natural. However, he walked away from the face of God with a limp, with his life preserved, but out of alignment with the supernatural flow of the Kingdom which comes through prioritizing the Presence of God in worship.
Joshua met Me face to face near Jericho. He also had an agenda…to know whether I was for him or for his adversaries. The difference is that when Joshua saw Me for who I AM, he laid down his agenda, bowed his face to the holy ground, and worshiped the Presence of the One who had come and was with him. He took off his sandal, staying in that place and posture of worship…dwelling in the Presence and lingering there until I spoke heavenly revelation for him to do otherwise. He stayed in alignment with the Presence of the Holy One and afterward he was witness and participant to the supernatural flow of the Kingdom that felled the walls surrounding Jericho.
Prioritizing worshiping My Presence sows into the spirit because I AM spirit. It is in worshiping My Presence that you are transformed from glory to glory…from the glory of redeemed natural identity to the glory of transformed supernatural identity. It is the difference between being empowered with natural strength and being empowered with supernatural strength. It is the difference between having your life preserved or My life transferred.
Genesis 32:24-32; Hosea 12:2-6; Joshua 5:13-15; Galatians 6:7
