Over the years, God has changed me. He's changed my ministry into a direction that will lift people out from an earthly consciousness into a heavenly or spiritual) consciousness. In this hour, God's Spirit is emphasizing a working within man to bring a release of the Christ who is in us. He said in two days I shall revive you but in the third day I will RAISE you up Hosea 6:2 Here this change is expressed in the terms revive and RAISE. TO RAISE involves the principle of resurrection. He also said tear down this temple and in three day: I will RAISE it up, but this spake He of His body John 2:19, 21. This verse not only speaks about His literal body, but also points to His body, the church

(Ephesians 1:22-23; 1 Corinthians 12:12; Ephesians 5:30).

The third day is also significant because Peter said a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as a day 2 Peter 3:8. We are now at the dawning of this third day.

As a result of this, God is stirring us and making us aware of His emphasis in this hour to cause our consciousness to be raised to the level of understanding we had in our beginnings. In Eden's garden we have a picture of our state of being, of man's natural state of affairs within and without himself. There was a river Genesis 2:10 that flowed through a garden. There were jewels, Genesis 2:12 denoting the state of being of man prior to the time he was separated from it.

History is an endless record of wars, maladies, famines, and all kinds of outer events, which only result from that which is true within us. Truly God has lowered us into the bondage of corruption, but not without a hope of restoring us into a full God-consciousness and state of being of wholeness once again. This is what salvation is about, Jesus said for two days I will do cures and cast out devils, but in the third day I will be perfected. This is why God's purpose in this hour is to perfect, to raise us and bring us into & consciousness of God, which is a full awareness of the realm of Spirit.

Canaan: The Realm of Spirit: Canaan represents the realm of Spirit. In the past Canaan has been taught incorrectly. Canaan was always taught as some place people died to go to. This philosophy has to be wrong. If heaven is a place we either have to die to go to or be raptured to, then our earthly existence is only to be one wilderness wandering after another, where we constantly go through trial after trial, suffering after suffering, only to die and finally make heaven. I believe it's this very lie that has been robbing people of living a Spirit-filled existence now.

God is opening up to us an understanding of heaven. Heaven is the realm of spirit, in which we are joined to the Lord, a realm we become more aware of, partake of and live out from as we grow in Christ. As we live out from that inner, heavenly realm, He comes forth through us into our earthly experience. Jesus said pray that the kingdom of God will come on earth; as it is in heaven so let it be in earth. Canaan represents the fulfillment of what's been promised, our inheritance, something you and I can now enter into, partake of and have manifested through our lives.

The tragedy I see among God's people today is they live so far below their privileges which have been purchased for them. Religion has failed to teach that through Jesus Christ there is no longer any limitation put upon us. One who understands that the veil has been rent, that the way into the Most Holy Place is now open, begins to come to an end of all limitations and to partake of the provision of that realm. There was an experiment performed in which flying insects were placed in a jar and the jar was covered. For a while the insects flew to the top and tried to get past the lid on the jar, but after struggling for a time, they stopped trying and only flew as high as they could. Offspring born to these insects now residing captivity never saw their parents fly above a certain level. Later, when the lid of the jar was removed, even though the insects could have flown out of the top of the jar (normally their nature), they didn't. They were born into captivity and never knew they could fly above that one realm of their existence.

This is how it has been for two thousand years in the Christian church. We have had certain traditions handed to us by our parents who have been in captivity, and have never thought to look beyond the experiences they passed on to us. But now God's people can rise above that which they have been programmed. This message is written to raise your awareness, to let you know you don't have to live at the low level at which Christendom wants to keep you.

Canaan is available. You can partake of it and it will change you from death to life, from natural to spiritual, from earthly to heavenly.

Israel had lived with the promise of Canaan for hundreds of years. God had told Abraham he was going to give him and his seed a land. But now they were face to face with the reality of what had been promised. We are no longer talking about what we're going to get, we're talking about what's becoming ours now. The problem they had to solve was how to get through those walls around Jericho. Like them we have the very same problem, getting through the walls we have up within ourselves which prevent the out flowing of the Christ within We can partake of the provision in the land of reality, we just need some adjustments to be made in our vision, our thinking and our inner man. Then what's true of us on the inside will come out of us into our outer world. All the walls of past teaching that have made the Word of God of no effect must come down. When we gain a right understanding of our union with the Lord and all that was accomplished at Calvary, we will see there are no more walls.

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