Stirring

I was at a café last week when I sipped coffee and it didn’t pleasantly swim down my throat. I had put in the sugar however!

“But you did not stir. Did you?” God question tagged me. I then stirred the sugar that had been at the bottom, and the reel of the man from the pool of Bethesda played in my mind. He always waited for the water to stir so that he may get in and be healed (John 5). I used to ask myself: why not get in the water so that the stirring found you within!

God said the angel was some form of stirrer, and perhaps there was no sugar, but when the pool was seen twirling, people believed the power had been activated for healing, and that it was only for one person. What if two people got in at the same time? What if one still believed that they’d get healed despite falling in the water late? Jesus only told the man to rise, take his bed and walk. His faith was placed in the ‘rise, take your bed and walk’ just like Peter’s ability to walk on water was in Jesus’ saying ‘Come.’

Something in me believes that pool had nothing missing, only the stirrer. The Bible says we have received all things that pertain to life and godliness, but can we all prove that we have indeed received all these things? John said ‘our petitions are with us.’ But are they all? The Holy Spirit then told me, all these are like sugar, they are at the bottom of our spirits — in us, with us — only needing stirring. The issue is not that there is no sugar in the coffee! The sugar is … we need to stir.

How do we stir? I asked God. He said: we stir by prayer, we stir by increase in revelation and understanding of His word and the covenants He has with us; and we stir by the knowledge of His word with us. These aspects propel what’s within our spirits to manifest into the physical. The wisdom you need is the sugar at the bottom. The time and chance you need to meet your destiny helper or spouse are the sugar at the bottom. The healing you need is the sugar at the bottom.

We don’t pray that God rains them down from the sky. No. When you believed Him, He moved into your heart, and in Him all things CONSIST; so all that is needed is stirring them — making them be lifted off the bottomless depths to manifest in the outer realm above.

So stir today! Increase in revelation. This is the vehicle that moves you from revelation to manifestation. (says Apostle Selman). Increase in understanding, knowledge and in the word of God! PRAY more! We must remember that Jesus grew in wisdom and stature. He understood more than the ancients, and He prayed regularly.

By this, He was constantly stirred; such that even when the woman that had been bleeding for years only touched his hem and snap! — she was whole. He didn’t pray for her first…

For Lazarus He only gave thanks and woke him up from slumber. This is how aprons and hankies not only conducted healing currency from touching Paul, but also conveyed exorcism abilities to whoever they dropped on! This is how Peter’s shadow did the same.

Since God not only dwells in our spirits but within the very air we breathe, these men, by understanding, stirred the power invisible about them, causing the air to be saturated with it (like my coffee), provoking the miracles all around. The shadow had received an overflow and outpouring from within; but today, a man 100 metres away from a pulpit can receive of the same stirring without waiting for the preacher’s shadow to first get to him.

And we mustn’t marvel at them. Jesus said that of every believer, the signs of healing the sick, raising the dead and casting out devils were to follow. They follow you! You just haven’t proved them yet. Or if you find that so hard to believe, you need only STIR them up. And you must as Jesus is — always be stirred.

He never first encountered a leper then remembered to pray. He never first encountered a dead man to find out whether He was anointed or not. If you remember to stir yourself only when the time to prove comes, by the time you get ‘charged’, it might be too late. One mustn’t take off in a plane, reach mid-air, then remember to fuel it.

Be stirred at all times, child of God. Do not be the one waiting to be told to pick up your bed and walk. Don’t be the one pitying — hoping someone lifts you to the stirred water. God wants you to be the stirring itself! Just like Jesus is.

For as He is, so should you be …