There is the desire of the Holy Spirit to bring the praise of the people of God to a higher place. This is about worship in the Spirit and in truth (see John 4:23-24).

 

23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.

24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

To worship in truth means to worship the Father through Jesus Christ.

To worship in the Spirit means to worship in the new kingdom that God has revealed to mankind.

The New Kingdom And The Melody in the Words

In order to understand that concept of the new kingdom, I would like to use these two definitions:

Kingdom of God:
A) It is the dominion of God within the believer by the way of the Holy Spirit. B) It is the presence of God that dwells in a person as his holy habitation.

This presence releases the embodiment/structure of God in relation to the person, which includes all the benefits, provisions and power characteristics of the Creator and His eternal kingdom.
This embodiment/structure releases the hand of God to move and exercise his authority wherever there is a a believer present. (partial excerpt from the “Prophet's Dictionary” by Paula A. Price, Ph. D.; page 298)

Kingdom of Heaven:
A) It is the dominion and influence of God's orders, systems, rules and ways in the affairs of men. B) The influence of the church of Jesus Christ in the world.
C) It is what the authority of Jesus Christ as the ruler of the kingdom of God and His heavens imposes on the world. (partial excerpt from the “Prophet's Dictionary” by Paula A. Price, Ph. D.; page 298)

It is the Holy Spirit bringing the melody of heaven into our words, which leads to an uplifting of words. When we raise our voice in truthfulness to God in worship, we begin to see God's intentions and plans prophetically in a new way.

 

The people of Israel, for example, had entered the process of transforming sound by leaving Egypt at the right time. They left the realm of slavery.

 

By leaving Egypt, Israel transformed its sound of crying out for help that it aroused out of Egypt into the sound of praise in the desert (see Exodus 3:9.18).

 

9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. …

18 “The elders of Israel will listen to you. Then you and the elders are to go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the Lord our God.’

Judah and Tamar

To emphasize the importance of maintaining worship at this time, let us be reminded of the story of Judah and Tamar (see Genesis 38).
 

Tamar (note: means “palm tree, date palm”) was the daughter-in-law of Judah (note: means

“worship, praise”). She knew how to enter a life as a mother from the life of a widow, because she honored the bloodline of her father-in-law Judah: in short, Tamar honored the life of worship!

Therein, she has become a “tree” that worshiped God (see Psalm 96:12-13a)!

 

12 Let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them; let all the trees of the forest sing for joy.

13a Let all creation rejoice before the Lord, …

This kind of worship had opened her womb to receive twins, Perez and Zerah (note: “Perez” means “a break, breach, breaking forth” and “Zerah” means “a rising of light or red glow of the rising sun”).

Tamar received her breakthrough pointing to the merciful hand of God, which is the shining blood of the true lion of Judah – Jesus Christ (see Genesis 38:14-18.27-30 i.c.w. Revelation 5:5).

 

14 she took off her widow’s clothes, covered herself with a veil to disguise herself, and then sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had now grown up, she had not been given to him as his wife.

15 When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

16 Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “And what will you give me to sleep with you?” she asked.

17 “I’ll send you a young goat from my flock,” he said. “Will you give me something as a pledge until you send it?” she asked.

18 He said, “What pledge should I give you?” “Your seal and its cord, and the staff in your hand,” she answered. So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him. …

27 When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb.

28 As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his wrist and said, “This one came out first.”

29 But when he drew back his hand, his brother came out, and she said, “So this is how you have broken out!” And he was named Perez.

30 Then his brother, who had the scarlet thread on his wrist, came out. And he was named Zerah.

 

Revelation 5:5:
5 Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.”

The Daughter of Jephthah

In connection with the story of Tamar, who saved the bloodline of the “HIGH Praise” – JUDAH, I would like to continue to go into the story of Jephthah, who was a judge in Israel at his time.
Jephthah was the son of a harlot, who had been rejected and despised by his half-brothers. He was a good warrior and fought victoriously against the Ammonites (means “inbred, independent” from Strong's H5983).

Jephthah had only one child, a daughter who became part of an oath which he made to God during the time of the war when he faced the Ammonites (see Judges 11:1-2.29-32.34-37).

 

1 Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior. His father was Gilead; his mother was a prostitute.

2 Gilead’s wife also bore him sons, and when they were grown up, they drove Jephthah away. “You are not going to get any inheritance in our family,” they said, “because you are the son of another woman.” …

29 Then the Spirit of the Lord came on Jephthah. He crossed Gilead and Manasseh, passed through Mizpah of Gilead, and from there he advanced against the Ammonites.

30 And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord: “If you give the Ammonites into my hands,

31 whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the Lord’s, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering.”

32 Then Jephthah went over to fight the Ammonites, and the Lord gave them into his hands. …

34 When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, who should come out to meet him but his daughter, dancing to the sound of timbrels! She was an only child. Except for her he had neither son nor daughter.

35 When he saw her, he tore his clothes and cried, “Oh no, my daughter! You have brought me down and I am devastated. I have made a vow to the Lord that I cannot break.”

36 “My father,” she replied, “you have given your word to the Lord. Do to me just as you promised, now that the Lord has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites.

37 But grant me this one request,” she said. “Give me two months to roam the hills and weep with my friends, because I will never marry.”

 

 

Because of Jephthah's oath, as reflected in Judges 11:30-31, his only daughter went to the high places and was conscious about the fact that she was a living sacrifice.

 

She was completely in agreement with her father, just as Jesus Christ was when He went to the cross of Golgotha. This attitude is also found to this day in those who consider themselves a part of the Bride of Jesus and express their love to God through obedience to Jesus and the Father (see Judges 11:36-37 i.c.w. Matthew 26:39; Romans 12:1; 1 Peter 2:5; Ephesians 5:25-27).

 

36 “My father,” she replied, “you have given your word to the Lord. Do to me just as you promised, now that the Lord has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites.

37 But grant me this one request,” she said. “Give me two months to roam the hills and weep with my friends, because I will never marry.”

 

39 Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.”

 

1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.

 

… 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

 

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,

27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

 

 

The people of Israel and its strangers were normally not allowed to sacrifice any human being (see Leviticus 18:21; Leviticus 20:2-5; Deuteronomy 12:31; Deuteronomy 18:10).

 

21 “ ‘Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molek, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.

 

2 “Say to the Israelites: ‘Any Israelite or any foreigner residing in Israel who sacrifices any of his children to Molek is to be put to death. The members of the community are to stone him.

3 I myself will set my face against him and will cut him off from his people; for by sacrificing his children to Molek, he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name.

4 If the members of the community close their eyes when that man sacrifices one of his children to Molek and if they fail to put him to death,

5 I myself will set my face against him and his family and will cut them off from their people together with all who follow him in prostituting themselves to Molek.

 

31 You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the Lord hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

 

10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, …

 

However, when an Israelite made an oath affecting a person over whom he had responsibility, the Israelite had to redeem that person with silver before God (see Leviticus 27:1-8 i.c.w. Psalm 12:6; John 1:3-4.14).

 

1 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If anyone makes a special vow to dedicate a person to the Lord by giving the equivalent value, 3 set the value of a male between the ages of twenty and sixty at fifty shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel; 4 for a female, set her value at thirty shekels; 5 for a person between the ages of five and twenty, set the value of a male at twenty shekels and of a female at ten shekels; 6 for a person between one month and five years, set the value of a male at five shekels6 of silver and that of a female at three shekels of silver; 7 for a person sixty years old or more, set the value of a male at fifteen shekels8 and of a female at ten shekels.

8 If anyone making the vow is too poor to pay the specified amount, the person being dedicated is to be presented to the priest, who will set the value according to what the one making the vow can afford.

 

6 And the words of the Lord are flawless, like silver purified in a crucible, like gold refined seven times.

 

3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.

4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. …

14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

 

The Numbers “2”, “10” and “30”

 

The number “2” has a certain significance in the story of Jephthah's daughter. Therefore, it is worth taking a closer look at this number. The daughter of Jephthah was in the mountains for two months and the number “2” is connected to the creation of the firmament – the heaven by God (see Genesis 1:6-8).

 

6 And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.”

7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so.

8 God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning – the second day.

 

It is helpful to fully understand the speaking of God through this prophetic teaching in this story, it is worth also taking a closer look at the number “10” and the number “30”. It is not written in the book of Judges how old Jephthah's daughter was, but it is possible that she was between 15 and 20 years old, because she went to the mountains by herself with her friends weeping for her youth.

 

Therefore, it is interesting to note what “value” a woman at this age had to be given according to the Word of God when she was put under an oath. According to Leviticus 27:3-4, the value for a woman at this age was 10 shekels or 30 shekels.

 

The number “10” is among other things connected with the “peaks of the mountains” and the number “30” is connected with the beginning of Jesus Christ's ministry in public but also with the height of the ark of Noah (see Genesis 8:5; Luke 3:23 i.c.w. Genesis 6:15).

 

5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

 

23 Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry. He was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph, the son of Heli, …

 

15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.

 

 

With this message according to the story of Jephthah's daughter, the Lord is calling us into a higher sphere of worship that is linked with self-abandonment. Through the sacrifice of self-abandonment we are permitted to enter a higher realm of worship including apostolic worship (see Galatians 2:20).

 

20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

 

 

=> As the gift of an Apostle and the calling of an Apostle represents the government of God, apostolic worship is worship that facilitates the government of God as He enthrones Himself on our praises.

 

Apostolic worship brings us into the Lord's governmental sphere and its progress on the earth. “Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” (see Matthew 6:10)

 

Apostolic worship implies that the worshipers only lend themselves to the purposes of God in their worship. It includes the coming to the place where the bridegroom invites the bride entering His kingdom. This is where the bridegroom enters into His apostolic function as He calls back to us, “Come away, my beloved!” (see Song of Songs 2:10.13)

 

We are in need to come to an understanding of how we must facilitate and support His apostolic functioning in our worship. We can no longer allow our worship to be limited by mere traditions, our culture of worship or our personal preferences.

 

It is time to move past these limitations and former traditions by getting more into an apostolic understanding of worship. The purpose of apostolic worship is not to take the place of our passionate heartfelt worship, nor do we allow our intimate worship in the bridegroom's chamber to be diminished, but we must discover how to take that zeal in worship into His governmental perspective instead.

 

It is apostolic worship that brings all of our aspects of worship into their maximum expression by honoring God as the only King of kings (see Revelation 19:16). <= (This section set in "=>" is based on a teaching on apostolic worship from the book "Worship As It Is In Heaven"; ISBN-13: 978-0-8307-5543-1; Regal books by John Dickson and Chuck D. Pierce.)

 

16 On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: king of kings and lord of lords.

 

 

We have to get up from our present status of worship and roll it as a scroll (note: ending), similar to the healed paralyzed man in the time of Peter while he was in Lydda. This paralyzed man rolled up his mat and got up (note: putting his former lifestyle behind). Like this, we should also take up our status of worship in order to come to our place of apostolic government in worship as His church (see Acts 9:32-35).

 

32 As Peter traveled about the country, he went to visit the Lord’s people who lived in Lydda.

33 There he found a man named Aeneas (means “laudable, the one who is honored”), who was paralyzed and had been bedridden for eight years.

34 “Aeneas,” Peter said to him, “Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and roll up your mat.” Immediately Aeneas got up.

35 All those who lived in Lydda (means “big village, strife, quarrel”) and Sharon saw him and turned to the Lord.

If we roll up our worship and bring it to a higher standard as apostolic worship, a new sphere will be created in the supernatural realm. This worship is connected to a new sound and a new season of spiritual maturity.

 

Its focus is no longer being blessed by God or thanking Him for His grace as His children, but rather of adoring, admiring and honoring God as the Almighty One, the Father being the eternal and righteous King and Judge of all by living our identity as mature sons knowing our Father's sphere of government.

 

The realm of God where the apostolic anointing has its seat is linked with His high thoughts in order to help us recognize our “now place” in Him and to give us confidence for the future. Whenever we operate in that apostolic presence of God, our assignment is to descend into our environment with the apostolic presence of the Lord to reveal God's governmental authority.

 

 

This process is like the transformation within the leading force of the movement of the throne of God, where there is a change from the face of man to the face of the lion (see Ezekiel 1:12).

 

12 Each one went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they went.

 

According to the book of Revelation, the face of the lion of the four living beings before the throne of God is placed in the first position and the face of the man in the third (see Revelation 4:7).

 

7 The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle.

 

This mentioned transformation describes the change into the apostolic movement, because the lion is the king of terrestrial animals representing also the ministry of the apostle.

 

Furthermore, it is the apostle who is called as the first officer of the five-fold ministry within the body of Christ (see 1 Corinthians 12:28a; Ephesians 2:20; Ephesians 4:11)

 

28 And God has placed (note: Greek “tithēmi” => “to appoint, to ordain, to commit, to give”; Strong's G5087) in the church first of all apostles, …

 

… 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.

 

11 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, …

 

However God decides to go forward in the spirit realm, the respective face of the four living beings of God is in the leading position and reveals the particular power (note: anointing) of God that manifests on earth.

 

 

Moses also reflected the presence of God by one attribute of the four living beings of God.

It was the one of the bull, because as he descended from mount Sinai with the presence of God to the people of Israel, it is said that the glory of God emanated from the face of Moses in form of horns (see Exodus 34:29-30).

 

29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because he had spoken with the Lord.

30 When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, his face was radiant, and they were afraid to come near him.

 

The Hebrew word which is used in Exodus 34:30 for “shining/radiant” is “qâran” and comes from the root word “qeren” that means “horns”.

 

It is God's demand and the desire of the Holy Spirit that we also descend with His presence on our faces in order to reveal and reflect His leading spiritual characteristic for this time.

 

His presence on our face is assigned to reveal His love and His government to the people within our fields of responsibility (see 2 Corinthians 3:7-11).

 

7 Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, transitory though it was, 8 will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?

9 If the ministry that brought condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness!

10 For what was glorious has no glory now in comparison with the surpassing glory.

11 And if what was transitory came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which lasts!

 

In order to gain a deeper understanding of the current transformation in the church, the following messages related to higher worship and God's divine order for the church should be referred here:

In His Wisdom,

 

Daniel Glimm

This message is about receiving God's presence for this time in order to be able to move forward with a higher spiritual potential in Jesus Christ in the power of His strength.

In this regard, the LORD has revealed that many of His people are currently between two periods of time, where it seems to them that they are stuck in time.

This state of feeling stuck can be seen in the fact that there is an inner expectation for larger things, which, however, cannot be clearly defined by words and at the same time there is that inner feeling of being stuck in something of the past.

The Other Lakeside and the Return of Jesus

According to the passage in Luke 8:40-56, dealing with the healing of a blood sick woman and the resurrection of the daughter of Jairus through Jesus Christ, there is the call to entering into God's plans for the future as one of great importance.

In Luke 8:40 it says that Jesus Christ came back from one side of the shore of the Sea of Galilee to the other side, where He had previously ministered to men.

Luke 8:40:
40 Now when Jesus returned, a crowd welcomed him, for they were all expecting him.

Jesus came back (note: return) from the shore with His twelve disciples, where He had previously delivered the Gerasene and also destroyed corruption in the economy of the region.

 

This had happened by allowing the evil spirits after leaving the Gerasene to enter the herd of pigs (note: symbol of economic corruption, according to the Word of God pigs are unclean animals; see Leviticus 11:7; Deuteronomy 14:8), so that they ran into the depths of the sea and drowned there (Luke 8:32-34).

Luke 8:32-34:
32 A large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside. The demons begged Jesus to let them go into the pigs, and he gave them permission.

33 When the demons came out of the man, they went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.

34 When those tending the pigs saw what had happened, they ran off and reported this in the town and countryside, …

As Jesus returned to the other side of the lake with a greater testimony of the power of His Heavenly Father (note: deliverance of a man from demons and the economic system of a region from corruption). He came back to the people who were all waiting for Him.

These people waiting for Jesus were in the past, even if they lived in the present, because Jesus Christ had left their shore and went on. As a result, Jesus and His disciples experienced new and great things through the power of the Heavenly Father, because Jesus Christ did only what He saw the Father doing (see John 5:19).

John 5:19:
19 Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.

And with this greater testimony about His Father in the future (note: on the other side of the lake at Gerasa), Jesus and His disciples returned to the shore side to the people already waiting for Him.

The Expectation of the People, Jairus and His Sick Daughter

The people waited for Jesus by having an expectation of something greater than they had known. This shore side with the waiting crowd represents the past. Jesus moving with His disciples to the shore side of Gerasa stands for the present, entering into the future plans of the Heavenly Father.

It is very important to the Father in Heaven that His people enter the “future presence” of His plans, which implies His mercy bringing His presence to men with a higher potential. Therefore, there are changes and movements within the society of His people that reveal His greatness.

It is said in Luke 8:41-42a that after Jesus returned with His twelve disciples, a man named Jairus came up to Him and fell at His feet asking Him to come into His house because His only daughter was terminally ill. Jairus was not just any ordinary man, but one leader of the synagogue, who can therefore be equated with persons in leadership (note: spiritual) in our time.

Luke 8:41-42a:
41 Then a man named Jairus, a synagogue leader, came and fell at Jesus’ feet, pleading with him to come to his house 42a because his only daughter, a girl of about twelve, was dying. …

In this context, Jairus represents believers in the field of leadership and spiritual responsibility, to whom the walk in the revelatory knowledge of God is important, passing it on to other people or to instruct others according to it.

Speaking in the prophetic context, his only daughter represents the life of the congregation that was about to decline because leaders had not decided to go further into the future right on time with the presence of God, which also means to walk in the plans (note: promise) of the Heavenly Father for this time.

The way to Jesus and to get in contact with Him was even made more difficult for Jairus, because there was the crowd of people around Jesus full of expectations (see Luke 8:42b).
 

… 42b As Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him.

 

The Crowd and the Healing of the Blood Sick Woman

This crowd points to people who feel stuck in the time of the past recognizing the need to receive the future of God's presence (note: Jesus Christ returning from the other side of the lake) with the perspective of being transformed or changed.

This is particularly evident in the representation of the woman suffering from a blood disease for twelve years and approaching Jesus Christ from behind (note: coming from the past).

She approached Him in faith and trust (note: willingness to live in true spiritual relationship with the Heavenly Father) and reached out to Him by touching the hem or tassels of His garment (note: agreement with the order/instruction of God; see Luke 8:43-44 i.c.w. Numbers 15:37-41).

Luke 8:43-44:
43 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her.

44 She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped.

Numbers 15:37-41:
37 The Lord said to Moses, 38 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘Throughout the generations to come you are to make tassels on the corners of your garments, with a blue cord on each tassel.

39 You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of the Lord, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by chasing after the lusts of your own hearts and eyes.

40 Then you will remember to obey all my commands and will be consecrated to your God.

41 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord your God.’

This woman suffering of the blood disease for twelve years pressed her way through the different “levels” of time to meet the divine moment for her life (note: Jesus Christ), which finally leads her into the future plans (note: promise) of the Heavenly Father.

By this touch the woman received true life in her blood system getting fully restored (see Genesis 9:4; i.c.w. Acts 15:20; John 6:53-54).

Genesis 9:4:
4 “But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. …”

Acts 15:20:
20 Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.

John 6:53-54:
53 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.

Speaking in the prophetic context, this woman had an understanding of sonship in Jesus Christ through her spiritual maturity established in the past (note: by teaching in the Torah/the Tenakh) and her touch of the hem of the garment of Jesus Christ, because He named her as daughter of faith (see Luke 8:48 i.c.w. Galatians 4:4-7).

Luke 8:48:
48 Then he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.”

Galatians 4:4-7 (note: The Jewish New Testament, David H. Stern):
..., 4 but when the appointed time came, God sent his son. He was born of a woman, born into a culture in which the distortion of the Torah of legalism was the norm, 5 so that he might deliver those who were subject to this legalism and in this way enable us to be made sons of God.
6 But now, because you are sons, God has sent the spirit of his son into your hearts, the spirit who cries, Abba! (note: that means father).

7 So by God you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if you are a son, you are also an heir.

The Resurrected Daughter of Jairus and The Process leading into Apostolic Sonship

It is very important to recognize, that while Jesus and His twelve disciples were originally on their way to the daughter of Jairus, He had healed a woman on their way, who was a mature person suffering from blood disease for twelve years, and then He took care of the twelve-year-old girl in order to bring her back to life after she had already died (see Luke 8:49-50.54-56).

Luke 8:49-50.54-56:
49 While Jesus was still speaking, someone came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader. “Your daughter is dead,” he said. “Don’t bother the teacher anymore.”

50 Hearing this, Jesus said to Jairus, “Don’t be afraid; just believe, and she will be healed.” …

54 But he took her by the hand and said, “My child, get up!”

55 Her spirit returned, and at once she stood up. Then Jesus told them to give her something to eat.

56 Her parents were astonished, but he ordered them not to tell anyone what had happened.

In this context, as Jesus raised Jairus' daughter from the dead to life, he called her “child”, indicating that in this representation the saints of the young generation should be brought into the potential of the sonship of God and His apostolic order by the instruction of the more mature generation (note: here represented by the healed woman from the blood disease).

On the basis of these powerful events of the healing of the blood sick woman and the resurrection of the daughter of Jairus, I would like to mention in my words the words of Apostle Chuck D. Pierce, who writes about this process in his book “Redeeming The Time”, published by Charisma House, ISBN 978-1-59979-378-8, page 10, in addition:

=> It is no coincidence that Jesus healed a woman suffering from blood disease for over twelve years and then raised a twelve-year-old girl from the dead right after this. On their way to the twelve-year-old girl, this woman touched the tassels of Jesus' robe and was healed.

The number 12 is related to the apostolic order and the new administration.
This means that the next generation or administration, represented by the twelve-year-old girl, is asleep, while the old leadership, symbolized by the woman suffering from blood disease, presses through to maintain the new life of the apostolic order within the church and to have an increase of the fresh life in her "temple" (note: body, blood circulation).

The tassels touched by this woman suffering from blood disease are an indication that she was in agreement with the apostolic order of God, which means that she remembered God's instruction and returned to the root of God's revelation (see Numbers 15:37-41). <=

Numbers 15:37-41:

37 The Lord said to Moses, 38 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘Throughout the generations to come you are to make tassels on the corners of your garments, with a blue cord on each tassel.

39 You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of the Lord, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by chasing after the lusts of your own hearts and eyes.

40 Then you will remember to obey all my commands and will be consecrated to your God.

41 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord your God.’

 

The Perspective to Go to the New Place with Jesus

In this context, this also means that if it is the Father's will for the church to leave a place of limited efficiency at this time, just as Jesus had left the region of Nazareth and moved to the new place, Galilee, then we should also do so and obediently follow Him (see Matthew 4:12-13).

Matthew 4:12-13:
12 When Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, he withdrew to Galilee.

13 Leaving Nazareth, he went and lived in Capernaum, which was by the lake in the area of Zebulun and Naphtali – …

Nazareth represents the region of the fleshly eye (note: earthly view, worldly perspective).

If we do not follow the Father's invitation to leave the “old” region, we will not experience the level of effectiveness in the form of signs and wonders that the Lord wants to do through us.

This means that we neither enter deeper into our promise land nor do we exploit our full potential. Such disobedience is closely linked to unbelief and lacking faith (see Matthew 13:53-58).

Matthew 13:53-58:
53 When Jesus had finished these parables, he moved on from there.

54 Coming to his hometown, he began teaching the people in their synagogue, and they were amazed. “Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?” they asked.

55 “Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother’s name Mary, and aren’t his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas?

56 Aren’t all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?”

57 And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town and in his own home.”

58 And he did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith.

By moving forward in unbelief as people of God, we behave like the ten spies of the tribes of Israel, who were prohibited from entering into the promise of God (see Matthew 4:15-16; Numbers 13:27-29.31).

Matthew 4:15-16:
15 “Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles – 16 the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.”

17 From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”

Numbers 13:27-29.31:
27 They gave Moses this account: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit.

28 But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large. We even saw descendants of Anak there.

29 The Amalekites live in the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live near the sea and along the Jordan.” …

31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.”

The Enlightened Eyes of the Tribes of Judah and Ephraim and the New Wine Skin

It is therefore important that we move forward with the right vision and these enlightened spiritual eyes of the tribes of Judah and Ephraim. This means that we first allow worship (note: Judah) to arise and then take up our double inheritance (note: Ephraim) in the will of God and the structure of the new wine skin (note: on earth as it is in heaven; see Numbers 13:6.8 i.c.w. Matthew 6:10)!

Numbers 13:6.8:
… 6 from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh; …

… 8 from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun; …

 

… 10 your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Ephraim was the younger son of Joseph, but blessed by Jacob before his elder brother Manasseh (see Genesis 48:13-14).

Genesis 48:13-14:

13 And Joseph took both of them, Ephraim on his right toward Israel’s left hand and Manasseh on his left toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them close to him.

14 But Israel reached out his right hand and put it on Ephraim’s head, though he was the younger, and crossing his arms, he put his left hand on Manasseh’s head, even though Manasseh was the firstborn.

 

The Favor of God and the Victorious Transition

This blessing of Jacob points to the favor of God that He gives to those who are ready to entering the new and willing to renew their thoughts through the high thoughts of God (see Romans 12:2 i.c.w. Ephesians 4:23-24; Ephesians 5:15-17).

Romans 12:2:
2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Ephesians 4:23-24:
… 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Ephesians 5:15-17:
15 Be very careful, then, how you live – not as unwise but as wise, 16 making the most of every opportunity (note: redeeming the time), because the days are evil.

17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

It should be noted that it was the half tribe of Manasseh who had been satisfied with the mellow field that was not in the Promised Land (see Numbers 32:1 i.c.w. Deuteronomy 29:7-8).

Numbers 32:1:
1 The Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were suitable for livestock.

Deuteronomy 29:7-8:

7 When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out to fight against us, but we defeated them.

8 We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Going back to the events of Luke 8:40-56 in the view of the transition to become a new structure, it is therefore essential that we as the church are in need to victoriously finish the last phase of time.

In order to receive new and fresh life, this transition is connected to the present, which carries God's plan for the future, even if this change is accompanied by overcoming, letting go and reorientation.

The woman healed of the blood disease, through her desperation and longing for life, overcame the barrier of culture, in which the distortion of the Torah to legalism was the norm.

 

She came in agreement with the apostolic order of the Son of God, who was about to bring the “new wine skin” to life!

It is necessary for believers of the church to humbly choose to press through the obstacle of obsolete church structures and “past times” of church life in order to reach the full measure of God's plan for the future.

Jesus Christ is the one who, through spirit-filled leadership (note: born from above out of the will of the Father), takes us from the old times into the new time of God's plans for the future. This leadership moves with the progress of renewal of the Holy Spirit and does not stand still in order to maintain a status quo or get lost in dead traditions.

In all of this, it is of the highest priority that believers in Christ remove all pride, mockery, and unbelief from their environment to preserve the sound of the resurrection power for God's future plan for the present time.

Only in this way can those who are faithful be victorious and increase in strength through the Word of God (see Matthew 9:23-26 i.c.w. Luke 8:53-55).

Matthew 9:23-26:
23 When Jesus entered the synagogue leader’s house and saw the noisy crowd and people playing pipes, 24 he said, “Go away. The girl is not dead but asleep.” But they laughed at him.

25 After the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took the girl by the hand, and she got up.

26 News of this spread through all that region.

Luke 8:53-55:
53 They laughed at him, knowing that she was dead.

54 But he took her by the hand and said, “My child, get up!”

55 Her spirit returned, and at once she stood up. Then Jesus told them to give her something to eat.

Other examples from the Word of God carrying this message are, for example, the widow and her son at the time of Elijah (see 1 Kings 17:17-24), Tabitha, returning in new strength to the administration (see Acts 9:36-43), Eutychus, coming back to life with fresh revelatory power (see Acts 20:7-12), as well as the apostles who received power from above in the time of pain and sorrow (see Acts 1:13-15 i.c.w. Acts 2:1-4).

All resurrections and processes of awakening described in these scriptures took place in connection with an upper room, which is connected with the walk of faith in God's plan for the future.

Therefore, God calls the church to leave the old place and its old time and to go with faith (note: firm confidence) to the place of the future plan of God.

 

This transition requires and involves an undivided heart attitude of submission to an apostolic order set by God (note: ministers/leadership in apostolic understanding) of the believers who have recognized their potentials and promise.

As a result, new life and refreshment comes in the form of efficiency, which appears with the supernatural (note: signs and wonders). This new efficiency, which brings the measure of the future into the present time, leads to a much higher effectiveness in the activities of the church.

 

Amen and Amen.

 

In His Wisdom,

 

Daniel Glimm