Revelation K

How do you know what you know? The answer to that question can mean 

the difference between standing and falling, between success and failure in the kingdom 

of God. 

Remember when you went to school and learned your ABCs and your multiplication tables? You know them because you learned them. Someone taught them to you.

That kind of knowing took you all the way 

through school. It’s called natural knowledge. You get it by using your five senses and your logical abilities to gather information and sort it out.

But in the kingdom of God, there’s another kind of knowing. One that works its way from the inside out, instead of from the outside in. It’s called revelation knowledge.

Jesus spoke about this kind of knowledge in 

Matthew 16. He’d just asked the disciples, “Who do you say that I am?” Peter answered Him by declaring, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

“Blessed are you, Simon,” Jesus responded, 

“for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven” (verses 15-17, New King James Version).

In other words, Jesus was saying, “Peter, you didn’t learn this information through your physical senses. You received it another way. You received it directly from God.

Actually, Peter did have to learn that truth later. He had to begin to grasp it with his mind. But he knew it in his spirit first. If you’ve never experienced this, it may seem hard to understand. But if you’ve ever had Jesus reveal something to you by the Holy Spirit, you know exactly what I mean.

First, you received it, you knew it in your spirit. Then you learned it with your mind. It can also work the other way.

You may have already learned some information about a subject. But when the revelation comes, you begin to see that information in another light entirely. Suddenly it has depth and dimension it never had for you before. It becomes such an unshakable reality in your life that, as Jesus said to Peter, “The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”

I remember one time I was battling with a 

particular problem. I’d prayed with other 

people about it, but still, I was struggling with it.

As I studied and meditated about it, suddenly it seemed as if a ball of light exploded in my spirit concerning two people agreeing in prayer. Several scriptures popped into 

my mind.“One [can] chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight” (Deuteronomy 32:30). All at once, I understood that when believers agree, the power doesn’t just double, it grows 10 times!

Then the Spirit of God said on the inside of me, Don’t you see that two born-again people agreeing, bring Jesus on the scene?

I remembered Matthew 18:20, “Where two or [more] are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”

And why do you think I’m in the midst? Jesus asked me. It’s to carry out the agreement.

That revelation burned away the turmoil I’d been wrestling with. As far as I was concerned, the thing was done. It was settled in my spirit.  I went the next day and met with a fellow minister at my place of worship.

Now that revelation didn’t come to me instantly or easily. I had to meditate the Word and search the Spirit of God for it because it was “hidden” in Him.

You see, God has purposely arranged it so 

truths like that can only be understood by revelation. He hasn’t just left them in the sense realm where anyone can pick up a book and discover them. After all, the devil can read; and God doesn’t want him taking that information and using it to destroy you.