Then Samuel took the horn and anointed Him in the midst of his brethren and the spirit of the Lord came upon Him, from that day forward. So Samuel arose and went to Ramah.
1 Samuel 16:13

Once we have received the anointing that that the Lord has, this anointing to bring us into this life of the eagle, if you will, the very next thing He does is take us into a place of obscurity. How many of you have experienced having a tremendous time with the Lord or experienced receiving a new anointing from the Lord or a new commission from the Lord and the very next step is that you find yourself in obscurity? People do not respect you anymore, they do not want your company anymore. It seems like everything that can go wrong, goes wrong. Have you experienced that?

That is part of the plan. That is part of the work of the Holy Spirit. The Lord has led you into that obscurity. He has brought you into that place where you are going to learn to no longer desire the praise of man. Your heart will be bound and knit together with His heart so that you desire His praise alone.

Jesus said, “How can you believe when you desire the praise of men?” And so the praise of men distorts and destroys our faith. It defiles our faith. This desire for the praise of man and to be looked up to and respected in the eyes of man is a faith-buster. It will cause your faith to crumble. He wants to remove that so He can lift you up in the power of the anointing He has ordained for your life. Eagles do not care about what men say. They have been lifted up high above that. Baby eagles care but not mature eagles, and God is in the process, right now, of creating mature eagles in His Church. Amen?

It says in 1 Samuel, Chapter 17, Verse 15: But David went and returned from Saul to feed His Father’s sheep in Bethlehem. In this place of obscurity is where the gifts are developed, the gifts for your calling are developed, and the heart of God for the vision is developed. This is where God’s faith is imparted into your heart for the vision. This is where you are going to experience persecution, hardships and rejection. This is where He is going to mold and make your heart into His image so that in the day of your coming forth, you are going to come forth as an eagle that is meet for the Master’s use.

The eyes of the Lord are looking to and fro throughout the entire world right now. He is looking into the heart of every man, every woman and every child. He is looking into your heart. He is looking into the pastor’s heart. He is looking into the hearts of leaders in the church. He is looking into my heart. He is looking to see what is in the depths, what is it that you really want. He is sifting and He is shaking and He is sifting and He is shaking and He is sifting to see if you really want Him or if it is something you are wanting for your flesh. Those who are wanting the glory for self-gain are getting sifted out. Those who want no glory because they want to know Him, to love Him and to walk deep in Him, are being brought in deeper than ever before.

He is taking them through a process by which everything that can be shaken is being shaken so that things which cannot be shaken will remain. If you stiffen your back and you stiffen your chin and you stiffen your neck against His discipline, you will miss what He has for you. If you let Him mold you like He did David, if you will let Him discipline you like He did Jacob and David, then you are going to be ushered into some wonderful things in God.

The Spirit of wrath was there, Jesus was there and I was there. The Spirit of wrath was between us so that if I did not do this right, this Spirit of wrath was going to be released against these people (ISRAEL?) and it was going to go right through me. So I am up there in the terror of the Lord. Have you ever experienced the terror of the Lord? I have experienced this many times and never like that day. I was so terrified I said one word at a time very slowly, very slowly and deliberately, because I wanted to check and make sure everything that I said was exactly what He wanted to hear.

After I gained the answer that He wanted to give, at the end of those intercessions, He took me to another mountain. On top of that mountain I said to Him, “Before I go, I want you to promise me, You are going to give me a walk with You like Moses had. I want to see You face to face, day by day, like Moses saw you. Where You go, I want to go. Where you do not go, I do not want to go, but I want to walk with You like Moses walked with You.” And you know, He just stood there and looked at me, looked deep into my eyes. When He did that, it scared me. I began to think, Why is He not answering me? Why is He looking at me like that? And I began to get really nervous. Have you ever gotten nervous when someone has stared at you?

I started looking around and I saw two red rocks. They were the ugliest things I have ever seen in my life. But I thought, That is it! That is what He wants. So I went over and picked up those red rocks; they fit in the palm of my hand, each one. I picked up those red rocks and walked back over to Him and said, “Jesus, if you will give me what I want, I will give you these.” I felt so ashamed and so embarrassed giving Him those ugly red rocks, but I said to Him, “These rocks, symbolic of my will and my rights, I give them to You.”

And at that time I noticed there was an altar; I had not noticed there was an altar before. I laid the rocks down upon the altar and fire came down from heaven and consumed the rocks. He smiled and told me He would give me what I had asked for. But you see, the price is your will and your rights. Your will and your rights.

To be continued next week…

In Him,

Nita Johnson