Absorbing Knowledge

God doesn’t cast His pearls before swine. Instead, the Bible says He’s hidden that wisdom for you, not from you. 

That’s why Jesus said that nothing is hidden but what it shall be revealed.

Don’t think, however, that God is just going to drop great revelations in your lap while you’re watching TV. Jesus said, “If any man have ears to hear, let him hear” (Mark 4:23). God has given you inner ears to hear His Spirit with. But you’re responsible for the hearing. You’re responsible for seeking out this revelation knowledge.

God isn’t dishing out revelations one at a time. Instead, He sent the Holy Ghost, and He has all the revelations in Him. When we get ourselves in a position to receive by 

meditating the Word, praying and fellowshiping with the Lord, we begin to receive those revelations from Him. So it’s on our end that the responsibility lies now.

Peter tells us that grace and peace are multiplied to us through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord (2 Peter 1:2).

That Greek word knowledge doesn’t mean 

something you learn through your senses. It means “exact knowledge, revealed in such a way that it’s not hindered by the physical senses or by someone’s ability 

to communicate.”

Notice too that Peter says, “Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus....” Did you realize you need more than a revelation 

of Jesus?

You need a revelation of God the Father. You need to know that the Almighty One is your very own Father. 

You need more than a mental understanding of it. You need to know it on the inside, and that kind of knowing comes only by revelation.

If you need healing, what you need is a revelation of the Healer. I remember I used to get upset over people I’d lay hands on who wouldn’t get well. I was praying one day 

and seeking God about this when He spoke to my spirit and said, Healing always comes.

I remember I said, “What do You mean? Not everyone gets healed.”

He said, I didn’t say they all received it. I do My part. Then He spoke very sternly to me. I said they would recover!

Those words hit me like a ton of bricks. He said they would recover. If He said they would recover, then that means healing always comes. It’s not God who’s holding 

back. It’s the receivers who aren’t receiving.

Since that revelation, I’ve never had any trouble laying hands on people and believing for their healing. Whether they walk away well or not, I just keep standing with God 

about their healing.

In fact, I know that if that fellow who went away still sick ever agrees with God and me

(I don’t care if it’s five years from now) he’ll wind up healed.

How can you maintain a walk of faith like that? The only way is to stay in the Word of God until you can see it so clearly on the inside of you, you don’t need to see it 

on the outside to know what’s going on.

Now and then I’ve had a revelation of something good that was coming. Later, when it happened, people asked why I didn’t go wild over such a great thing. I didn’t 

because I wasn’t a bit surprised.

Why do you think the Spirit of Truth would show me something to come? It’s so I could walk by faith in that situation. So I could plow in hope instead of quitting in the heat and saying, “Oh well, the ground’s too hard for 

anything to come of this anyhow.”

Listen, if God is calling you out into the field, there’s only one way you’re going to make it. You have to pray and meditate on the promises of God until He reveals what He’s called you to do and how to do it.

There are specific things in your life that need to be settled and made solid by revelation because the devil is going to fight you over them. He’s going to do everything he can to steal them from you, and it’s going to take a revelation from God for you to hang on to what you’ve got.

When you start walking in revelation knowledge, it’s no longer a matter of whether 

you’re going to win or lose. It’s only a matter of how long you have to hang in there until 

you win! It’s when you walk in revelation knowledge that the power of God flows in your life. That’s why Satan goes to great lengths to get the Word out of your life before it can take root.

In fact, Jesus said that’s the reason behind persecution and affliction. It comes for the 

Word’s sake (Mark 4:17), for the sake of the revelation. Satan puts the pressure on because he’s after that revelation.

The devil works hard against you because he has to get the revelation of what God has told you out before it has time to grow. If he lets it grow up, he knows you’ll beat his brains out with it. Satan will literally fight us one at a time to keep us from all coming together and 

getting the same revelation, because when that happens, he’s in big trouble.

Once you begin to see Jesus and His authority, you’ll put the devil under your heel and he knows it. But if he can keep you away from revelation knowledge, if he can keep you operating in the realm of the physical 

senses instead of the realm of the spirit, he can keep that from happening.

I’ll tell you this: If there’s any way the devil can get your eyes away from the promises of God, he’ll do it.

When Peter jumped out of the boat that day in response to Jesus’ call, what happened? He walked right along across that water without a problem. His whole being was fastened on that word Jesus spoke to 

him, “COME!”

But when he took his eyes off that word, he started looking at the storm. He started looking at the impossible thing he was doing. Fear was the result. As soon as fear gripped him, he began to sink.

Can you see it was Peter’s revelation of who Jesus was that kept him on top of that water? It kept his faith operating, and faith is the supernatural force in revelation 

that causes it to come to pass. 

But then Peter turned his eyes away from the revelation and began looking at the natural. After all, he was a fisherman. All his training and experience told him when the 

waves were that high, you were going under. He started to focus on what he knew in the natural instead of what Jesus said; and when he did that, his faith slipped out of 

gear and he started to sink.

That’s exactly how it works. Once you get a revelation from the Word of God, you must hang on to it. The devil will do everything he can to take it away from you. He’ll stir up things around you. He’ll try to get you into fear. 

He’ll push every button he can from the past to get you back into your old way of thinking.

But don’t let go. Keep your eye on the promise of God until it’s more real inside you than anything else.

When you do that, you’ll know that you know that you know. It won’t be a bit like the ABCs or the multiplication tables. It won’t be a theory or doctrine or theology.

You’ll know what you know because you received it from the Spirit of God. Then, one of these days when what was revealed to you on the inside comes to pass on the outside, you won’t even be surprised. You’ll just 

nod and grin and say, “Bless God, I knew it all along!”