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Synchronizing the right brain by reading the prophets
For 25 years I was preserved, transformed and brought into the royal line of God by getting up early and reading the prophets. Looking deeply and drinking deeply from those mystical, often incomprehensible stories of those wild, ostracized men, like Isaiah, Zechariah, Amos, Obadiah, Ezekiel and the others.
Right Brain Engaged
The prophets lives, actions, poetry, symbolism and surprising behavior grips much more than the intellect. Their testimony and ministries are whole-brained. There is left brain input and yet it is largely right. It speaks to the heart more than the intellect, to the right brain more that the left. You are shocked, surprised and fascinated by their stories before your intellect can master it.
What a powerful, and typically God manner of ministry. Just like the parables it does not help everybody.
10 And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”
11 He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. 12 For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. 13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. 14 And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says:
‘Hearing you will hear and shall not understand,
And seeing you will see and not perceive;
15 For the hearts of this people have grown dull.
Their ears are hard of hearing,
And their eyes they have closed,
Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears,
Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,
So that I should heal them.’
16 But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear; 17 for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.
” (Matthew 13:10–17, NKJV)
The scared and slothful tithers often cried” it’s the Old Testament, it’s the Old Testament” because the stories scared them, but I just couldn’t look away, I couldn’t eat the candy floss gospel of KFC and deny the God of the Bible.
Now I’m blessed profoundly by Jim Wilder and Witness Lee and the convergence of their very different testimonies. One is an American Brain Scientist and the other a Chinaman. Both are presenting a view of God that is free from the left-brain intellectualization of the Greco-Romans and the Enlightenment and the convergence is deeply satisfying and exhilarating. Joy is indeed bubbling out of the ground from some deep Aquifer that God has reserved for us to drink from.
The one calls his story “Whole Brained Christianity”, the other one “The God Ordained Way” but they overlap in divine design that clicks like a Swiss Watch.
No effort to overcome sin, be holy, pursue spirituality or be transformed has vaguely impacted me like just simply looking deeply into the Face of God in Jesus Christ.
I’m Transformed by the Face of Jesus
12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
” (1 Corinthians 13:12, NKJV)
15 But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. 16 Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
” (2 Corinthians 3:15–18, NKJV)
The Light of Gospel in the Face of Christ
Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart. 2 But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. 3 But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, 4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. 5 For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus’ sake. 6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
” (2 Corinthians 4:1–6, NKJV)
Transformed by the Renewing of your Mind
12 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
” (Romans 12:1–2, NKJV)
The Prophets Knew Christ
10 Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, 11 searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow. 12 To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to us they were ministering the things which now have been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things which angels desire to look into.
” (1 Peter 1:10–12, NKJV)
Observing your Face in the Mirror
21 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
26 If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless. 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
” (James 1:21–27, NKJV)
