Transcript from July 2010 New Orleans Teaching

From last week…

You are the one that has to do it. He’s not going to come and barge in the door while you sleep at the foot of truth. Someone used to work for me; every time our team would go into prayer, this person would go to sleep. I would tell this person, if feel the desire to sleep, then get up and walk, but don’t sleep when you should be praying. If you have to go stand on the edge of the bathtub, then do it. Do whatever you have to do to keep yourself awake because today, sleeping is the most serious mistake you could ever make. It’s never been more necessary to wake up.

God is calling you, and He’s calling you to a new place of commitment; a new place of passion. He’s calling you to chase after the truth. We are to dig for it as a man digs for human treasures; open the Bible, dig for the truth as a man digs for hidden treasures. If someone gave you a gold mine and said that all you have to do is mine it and its field for gold and you would become one of the wealthiest people on the face of the earth, would you just sit still in your living room and say, “I wish I had money while the economy is falling apart?” Or would you go at any cost, maybe even sell your house, to buy the equipment to mine the gold mine? What would you do? Listen to me. What would you? You’ve got the greatest gold mine in the world in your hands. You’ve got the greatest gold mine in the world in your soul. The wealth of the kingdom and eternity is in this place. What are you doing to mine the gold? You would sell your house and car—everything you own down to the clothes on your back—if you knew that mining the gold mine you had just been handed would make you a wealthy person. But will you pick up this Book and mine the gold? Will you plow up the fallow ground? Plow up the fallow ground of your soul and prepare it for the gold of heaven! Will you? If you sell all to mine the gold mine that this gentleman so graciously gave you, that might show you’re intelligent. But if you would mine that earthly mine and leave this heavenly mine untouched, you are a person lacking wisdom.

Who cares if you’re a multi-billionaire if your soul is not rich in God? What do you have in life if you do not walk in the wealth of the kingdom? What do you have? You have nothing. A person who lives in abject poverty but is rich in faith, rich in the wealth of the kingdom is of more value to this earth than someone who is a billionaire and is poor in spirit, in the wrong way.

We need to change the way we perceive things. What you’ve been given is of greater value than anything that this world can offer. It’s of greater value than anything this world can offer. Be wise in your pursuits—don’t be a fool. Desire the wealth of the kingdom; desire to walk in the light of His truth.

I just saw an incredible vision. I saw the human soul and I saw a seed planted in it. Suddenly, seemingly as fast as the seed was planted, up out of the seed came a tree of light, filling the whole soul with the glory of God. If the light in your eyes is dark, your soul is filled with darkness. But if the light in your eyes is light, your soul is filled with light. Where will you stand this day? What will you have this day? Will you allow the tree of the kingdom to arise in its place and fill you with the life, the light, the power, the glory of the living Lord? The Word of God is near you, even in your mouth. That tree is the glory of the Word of God. It is the eternal seed that has been planted in you as a most luxurious gift. It is the desire of the nations, wealth so great that those who despise God are jealous and they hate you for the treasure that is inside you, because they know the day is coming. Deep down inside God has put eternity into their heart and soul and deep down inside they know the day is coming when they are going to be dwelling in the caverns of hell looking at you dwelling in the glory of heaven knowing they could’ve had it but they despised it when they should’ve loved it.

Love truth; crave truth; desire truth so that the passion of God overtakes your soul and consumes you in the zeal of Christ for truth. No longer walk in darkness but live in the light for you are children of the light. Desire not the darkness of the world, but desire the light of your glorious Lord. When you finally walk through that illustrious door, you’ve broken with the bondages of the world and your soul is transformed when you’ve finally reached the glorious door of truth. When you step over the threshold into the glorious light and you shut the door behind you—all things are changed, and you are transfigured. He who desires you has become all in all. You have been brought back to the beginning. You have touched the purpose for which you’ve been created. Jesus never called you to be a seeker of the world. He called and empowered you, giving you the life to enable you to be a seeker of truth. Until you’re living in the kingdom of His glory while here on this earth—and don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do it because I’m telling you that you can and if you don’t accomplish it in this life then shame on you for wanting the wrong life.

Lord, sometimes your truth makes us so nervous we can hardly sit still. We feel your words penetrate and start to burn, Lord, and start to shake our soul and it just makes us so nervous we can hardly sit still. And Lord, we’re nervous because we know we’re on the wrong road and we need to change allegiance, but something inside our soul is warring against the very truth our spirit cries for. Lift us up Lord that you grace may strengthen us for the journey as we open your beautiful, marvelous book, Lord; that your Words penetrate and give strength and stamina for the journey. It doesn’t matter what we have or accomplish in this life if we do not accomplish Your will and if we do not have the life to which we’ve been called. Wood, hay and stubble—that’s what Paul called it; let us learn to cast it aside for the greater. We give you praise, Lord.

All things that are Mine are yours and all things that are yours belong to Me and I am glorified in and through them.

All are mine, which is what it should say. And He said: All that is Mine is yours. And He wants to give it to you, but you have to come after it. You have to rise up and come after it. What did the father say to the prodigal son? What did he say to the brother? All that is mine is yours. To the prodigal, whose eyes were finally opened, he gave the ring of authority. He gave to the other brother all that he had. The prodigal had already spent his father’s wealth and all that the father had, he gave to the brother. But what the father gave to the prodigal was worth more than what he gave to the brother. Learn to choose right; don’t cherish anything that you can put your hands on. Don’t cherish anything of this temporal plain—cherish the Lord. When your heart is free of all temporal belongings and the only thing you cherish in your heart is Christ, you have won it all, Amen?

God, you are life, and you are truth, and we have not yet learned to discern what we must learn to discern quickly. We have not learned to put our life in you, to put our faith in you and to walk in the life that you give to stand in the truth that you are. We have not learned to discern properly good from evil, but Lord, I am asking you to impart in every willing heart a greater measure of your Spirit to help them discern good from evil that they may let go of the lower life and love the higher life, and walk in the goodness and the life in the power of Your truth, in Your precious name, Amen.

In His Amazing Love,
Nita Johnson