Becoming All-One - Danny Walters

Becoming All-One (Danny Walters)

So this kind of sharing is really quite personal and I would imagine new for everyone – it certainly is for me. But I have something I want to share again this morning as I continue in this same vein of things, and as I consider sharing the message, I am before the Lord first, as to whether or not it is something I should share, and then secondly, how I should bring it forward. I am endeavoring to share only out of Christ as He wants things shared, and not presume or assume anything. But as I’ve mentioned, the Lord has put a strong body-sense in me and so I have become ‘naturally’ disposed to this Mind of sharing right now. Still, I am continuing cautiously, (trying to learn) endeavoring to only move as His Spirit leads. 

Anyway, I had a dream yesterday morning that was one of those ‘hit me between the eyes’ kind of experiences. And the reason I consider sharing it is that I have probably received this message before but was closed off or not ready for the interpretation, and so didn’t get it. It seems though that the Spirit is somehow ensuring I’m understanding the things brought forward in this moment – maybe being forceful with me to some degree to ensure this moment becomes foundational or maybe substantially incremental to what He’s building, and not just another time I passed through. It is in that regard that I thought perhaps I should share the message of the dream, as it may relate to something the Lord is speaking or has spoken to others. And the message is SO important to get, to really embrace. I mean, I know the message is for everyone, whether or not you’ve had a dream or a sense along this line – it’s something that those ‘in the way’ of His things should get a hold of.

And it seems the place to begin in relaying the message is at the punch line – the last thing the Spirit spoke before my eyes were opened. The scenario plays out like the two walking the road to Emmaus with resurrected-Jesus as their companion, completely unaware that they’d been walking with their Lord until their eyes were opened. In my dream a whole scene plays out that’s analogous to walking the road with Jesus, unaware, and then I wake up and as I’m considering it, all of a sudden I get the interpretation (analogous to: ‘THAT was Jesus’) and it more than surprises me, it shocks me, it astounds me. And then when that settles in, I’m brought to my knees with a revelation that is both humbling to my core and at the same time answering every present desire of my being with a warm and utterly satisfying knowing (analogous to the revelation of the Truth that He’d been speaking to the two along the walk, hitting their spirit’s core and answering every one of life’s questions in that moment).

So I’m starting with the, “THAT was Jesus” moment and will get to the personal utterly-satisfying touch of Truth’s revelation in a moment.

The revelation was: “where you are, is My gift to you”.

As I said, that put the entire train of life with every car full and weighted down with years of experiences and people and circumstances and situations pressing forward with all of its combined push, at full-stop. Where I am, where I find myself in this moment, is God’s gift to me – a present, maybe in some way a reward.

Now, I had to give consideration to where I was. And to the adam-man I’m cut-off from life as I’ve always known it, and separated from the future that I had always imagined with my children and grandchildren, living on a foreign continent in a foreign culture, in virtual isolation given circumstances, language, and security concerns, frequently without electricity or running water, and the list goes on.

But if it’s a gift, and a gift from God, then I’m in one of the most beautiful places on the planet, with an apartment whose bedroom balcony overlooks one the largest lakes on globe, a lake surrounded by mountains, and the water of the bay we’re sitting in is always as glass, picturesque, tranquil, captivatingly beautiful. And our apartment has a measure of security, and our landlord likes us and treats us like family and gives us grace on our rent, and we’ve been here now for ten months without earning income and the Lord has continually provided for us. And Grace and her daughters and Venuste, our live-in domestic worker (whose been with us for a year and half now), give me much love and respect. And as my bent these days is to stay before the Lord 24/7, I have no interruptions; no visitors, no TV, no radio or iPod or books (other than my Bible). And more, so much more. It’s a worshippers dream!

And considering all that, I am humbled. In fact, I am remorseful and repentant for not being more appreciative for having been perfectly placed and situated to fulfill, DESTINY. I mean, that’s what it’s all about right? Not retirement; I’m not looking for retirement, unless you mean retirement from the cares and demands of this world that I might give myself over to a full-time vocation of following the Spirit into Destiny; yes I want that. And that’s what I’ve been given.

Surprise. And the reason it’s a surprise is, while I would tell you that I am of a mind to understand I’m being kept by the power of God and am in the way of His keeping, yet at the same time I’m still somehow half-way (or more than half-way) about the rent and whether or not we’re in the right place and doing the right thing. And then there’s all these seemingly inherent concerns that are a result of our culture and upbringing, things that have to do with what family thinks and friends think and associates, and our testimony and how it reflects upon Christ and so on, because there’s much more to all these bullet points of life than what I’ve shared for brevity’s sake. Sheesh, ‘I’ can certainly complicate things.

But to hear that where I am is God’s gift to me, well, that just changes the whole perspective doesn’t it. I mean, now, I have no worries. I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be, doing what I’m supposed to be doing, and doing it with whom I’m supposed to be doing it (and that includes you with whom I am doing this – Ha!). And the really big thought behind this revelation, is PURPOSE, because THAT’s what we’re all about; that’s our Thing. And if I’m in the place I’m supposed to be, by God’s hand, and my whole heart and mind is wrapped up in fulfilling the Lord’s intended purpose for my life then gosh, I’m PERFECTLY placed for THAT by the PERFECT PLACER – the same One who placed the adam in His garden has placed me here! This place has become Eden to me; the place where I will come to literally walk with God.

So this understanding is big, it’s paramount, and it’s restful. In this understanding is peace, confidence, and assurance. And certainly if it is for purpose, this understanding then is coupled to supernatural things – His things – for that’s what we’re talking about: His things having become the sum total of our things. Therefore this understanding is coupled to the supernatural power and driving force of His will, His love, and the related objective(s) that He has in Mind. And we are caught up in THAT – ALL OF THAT! As mentioned, this understanding, or revelation, is big.

But there was one thing bigger for the two on the road to Emmaus. As big as it was to see resurrected-Jesus and talk and walk with Him for a couple hours – to get THAT revelation – what was bigger was what He left them with. The dawning of the fact that they had just been with Jesus was a powerful moment, but what would carry them through for the rest of their earthly lives was the revelation of Truth personally imparted by the very Spirit of Truth personated in Christ along that walk. And this next thing is what melted me. That first thing LIBERATED my consciousness, but what came next has enlivened me; it has seemingly breathed new and heavenly breaths of life into me that will keep me and sustain me until Destiny is reached!

But how do I convey it? I’ve not given you enough context for it to grab you as it grabbed me. And that’s how God is: He’s personal. He’s personally intimate with each one of us. His messages go deep into our person because He as no other, knows us to that depth and can relate to us out of that depth – the deep of Him speaking into our deep. But it’s powerfully significant so I’ve got to try to communicate what was personally powerful to me that you might be able to at least relate to its significance.

You know how I mentioned yesterday that I was seeing our One God in all of His manifestations, all of the various ways that God has given character to Himself for creation’s sake? Well, it was through one of those personations of Himself that He touched me in the quick of my heart. I mentioned that in the dream, God said: “where you are, is My gift to you”. Well, at this point I’ve got to share a bit of the dream with you.

In the dream, in the midst of the busyness of life, my birthday was coming up and my wife was planning something but even though she’d communicated some things, none of it registered with me. And so a day had arrived where seemingly in the busyness of life, our SUV is jam packed with people, adults and children, and I’m driving us up into the mountains on some excursion. Now for days my wife has been walking around with this little book in her hands, opened to the centerfold where there’s a map. And as it’s been, she’s still clutching this little book, sitting in the front passenger’s seat with kids and others overflowing up into our space with all their animation and noises of life, and as we’re nearing the first stop she has highlighted on this map I pull over for some reason, whether for directions or for ice-cream – I don’t remember – but I stopped and my wife and I got out and walked up to the walk-up counter of this Tastee-Freeze and there were a number of people in line ahead of us and I’m trying to see how I might get the attention of the guy inside while standing in the midst of all these others who are vying for his attention, and of course all the while my wife is pointing to the map in the little book and trying to get me to understand something when, all of a sudden, I had an epiphany. It suddenly dawned on me that all the busyness that she’d been busy with and all the things she’d been doing – and I realized that she’d made significant preparations, arrangements – my goodness, this was all for my benefit! And I told her that I was sooo sorry; I hadn’t realized – I hadn’t noticed – she’d spent so much time and energy on getting everything ready for this time, gone ahead to every spot on the map and made special arrangements at every location – everything was set in order: situations where people and circumstances would be waiting, and there would be gifts and blessings and then clues that would lead me to next spot that she wanted me to arrive at – I was at a loss. I said I was so sorry and asked for forgiveness and said: “I didn’t realize that everything you were doing was for me”. And she said “yes, it is all for you”. And then I woke up.

And I could feel the Lord so strongly and I realized all that I’ve already told you. And as I was laying there I was thanking God and praising Him and asking for forgiveness for being so dense and was still in awe about the revelation and was thinking about all that I’ve come through in the last four or five years or so, all the people and circumstances – it’s been a whirlwind. And then I was thinking about my wife – my wife in the dream – and I didn’t recognize her. And as I was thinking about that and trying to draw parallels and so on, that’s when I heard: “where you are, is My gift to you”. And I immediately knew that she was the daughter of Wisdom, my covenant bride.

I practically fell out. And stepping aside from all I felt and how I reacted and what followed, I want to tell you why that revelation was so powerful to me. The reason is simply because Adam had rejected wisdom and chosen to couple with his own rational mind, and I knew at that point that his covenant bride withdrew, meek as she is, and was lost to him. It was more than shocking to me to find out that Wisdom’s daughter was abiding with me, and more especially that she’d been with me for some time and that I was unaware.

So I considered and realized that yes, I have for some years now rejected the seeing, feeling, hearing, imagining, reasoning mind of Adam, but what I hadn’t realized is that what I had embraced by doing so, was Wisdom. Until recently I’d always thought Wisdom was that God-perspective of things. I hadn’t known Wisdom as a member of God’s personhood. Understanding God as Spirit, and all His attributes as spiritual attributes still had not really given legs to the understanding that Wisdom was not just the caliber or elevated capacity of the Mind of God, but is the spiritual organ of His Mind, as reason is to the adamic man, and that when we reject the rational mind, we are embracing the Mind of Christ, which is that spiritual organ of Wisdom.

So what was melting me was that I had become, in some measure, both male and female, in essence. You know what I’m saying – not literally – but in the God-essence of things, Wisdom was back in my being. That spirit-counselor betrothed to me as a covenant partner – the daughter of her Mother through whom the worlds were fashioned – she was back. And the fact that the Lord had revealed that to me was carrying some heavy weight. And the revelation that Wisdom had been guiding me for some time toward a destination that God had intended for me, and that I had followed that Spirit – that I had somehow aligned myself to His Spirit of Wisdom – it was revolutionary!

You see what I’m saying: we are becoming! Rejecting the seeing, feeling, imagining, reasoning organ of the rational mind and embracing by faith, the leading of Wisdom’s Mind, we are becoming all-one again, as He is, in this world! That’s what melted me – God revealed THAT to me – ‘Let Us make man in Our image’, is happening – the essence of who He is and has always been is becoming the essence of who we are – men, essenced in His essence.

And so again, maybe a witness to you of what the Lord is speaking, or revealing…