It’s All About Your Belly
Some time ago I was in a Spirit filled church during service. I had driven all the way from southern Utah to California to hear a man speak about the next move of God. The Pastor asked everyone in the congregation to pray before the service. As I prayed in other tongues, a lady directly behind me just about doubled over each time I spoke in tongues. After service, this older sister came up to me saying that when I would speak in tongues she would feel it in her belly. She related how she had just returned from attending the Brownsville revival in Florida. I could sense the Holy Spirit in her and saw God looking back at me through her eyes.
God is more than the Bible
My writing today is more “observational” than “scriptural.” No single scripture or set of scriptures exactly lays out this teaching. However, (and this is something I am trying to clarify to those who read my writings) not everything that God does is enumerated specifically in the scriptures. In fact, many times, only through experiencing God and how He actually works in real life, do His scriptures become clear to us.
For instance, people who don’t know Jesus have a difficult time understanding what the salvation experience is…but those who have experienced Him do. Those who have never spoken in other tongues sometimes have difficulty understanding that experience…but those who speak in other tongues do. Those who have never felt the Tabernacles experience may have a difficult time understanding Divine Love…but those who have experienced God’s love in that powerful way do.
So with that in mind…
Jesus says,
“He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.”
John 7:38
Jesus speaks these words because our spirits physically reside in our bellies. Therefore, when God fills us with His Spirit, He does not fill our heads but our bellies.
Though many Christian live their faith from our heads, God calls us to live our faith from our bellies. People who practice intellectual Christianity fail to allow the His Holy Spirit to control their lives. Jesus said that rivers of living waters would flow from our bellies, not from our heads.
It’s all about your belly
I want to bypass your head and know your soul and spirit. That is where God dwells and that is Who I want to meet through you. Each of us has a unique ability to reveal God in a way that no one else can. Like facets of a diamond we reflect God’s light in our own special way. The fusion of God and man is what the virgin birth is all about. That fusion happened in the womb of Mary because that is where her spirit was. Likewise, the new creation that we are becoming is flowing from our bellies by His Spirit for that is where the life of God is.
God’s things cannot be understood by our natural man because they are spiritual known. However, those who are led by His Spirit discern all things, knowing the deep things of our Father. Allow your spirit to grasp what I have said. Let the Holy Spirit rule over your soul and intellect so that we all might become one In Him.
SEOI
Dear Connections,
I remember, as I danced in the church sanctuary, God reveled to me that He was restoring mankind back to the garden. In other words, our Father wanted us to regain our pre-fallen innocence with Him.
At the time, I had no idea of what my Lord was talking about, but it felt sooooo right. It was like stepping into heaven. Seems like I have spent the last 30 years of my life learning what God really said at that one moment of time.
An apostle once taught that God’s revelation is like a mighty wind blowing through the ages. As it approaches, you feel it strengthen. God’s truth literally expands forever. That is what I feel with that one simple revelation. It started small, but has expanded over time until it has become what this site contains.
What would have happened if I dismissed what God said because it did not fit what I believed? In retrospect, that would have been very bad and I would have missed a lot. However, at the time, it didn’t seem very important other than the thrill I felt in my Spirit. That moment, though, was the birth of Tabernacles theology. This only goes to show that it is vital that we allow our spirits to hear what His Spirit is saying.
God bless,
Michael