I have often described the reality in Christ as a land, a whole new world, a new creation. Like stepping into planet Mars for example, that's a whole new world.
"For in him we live and move and exist." (Acts 17:28).
He is the land and we as his people, we are a community in this land. When the Israelites entered into the land of promise, manna stopped falling from heaven. This is because God wanted them to work for their food, they were to tend the land, and yield its produce.
"The Lord says, “Don’t harden your hearts as Israel did at Meribah, as they did at Massah in the wilderness. For there your ancestors tested and tried my patience, even though they saw everything I did. For forty years I was angry with them, and I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts turn away from me. They refuse to do what I tell them.’ So in my anger I took an oath: ‘They will never enter my place of rest.’”" (Psa 95:8-11)
"The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it." (Gen 2:15).
Canaan land was called a place of rest, the garden of Eden was also a place of rest that God gave man when he entered into rest from creation. In both places of rest they were given an assignment, "tend the land". Yes, rest does not mean doing nothing and hoping manna will fall from heaven. They must work hard in cultivating the land. However, this work would be greatly blessed so that they will yield more than they worked for.
"For we who believe enter his rest... For all who have entered into God’s rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world." (Heb 4:3,10).
Christ is the place of rest that God has given us. In this rest we must tend the land. The land is filled with riches, it is a land flowing with milk and honey. But if you do not tend it you will go hungry despite how rich the land is. Yes, there were still poor people in Israel even though every family was given a portion of this land flowing with milk and honey. There will always be poor people because people are lazy. The resources are there but they are too lazy to explore.
"To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ," (Eph 3:8).
Christ is filled with unsearchable riches but we have not been taught to tend the Land. In fact, most of us have not learn how to rest in the land much less tending the Land. Most of us are still largely in religion, we are not even in the Land, we have been taken captive into religion. We must break free from religion, learn to rest, and then begin to tend to the Land. Yes, stop working for your righteousness, rest in the righteousness you already have in Christ. Until you rest in that righteousness you can't begin to work out (tend) the righteousness (Phil 2:12).
You have to stop paying for your own sin by punishing yourself with guilt. Rest in the payment that Jesus made with his blood, and from there nurture a right walk with God. There are so many ways we have been in religion rather than tending the land. We see power and blessing as something that we have to make God give us. So we keep looking for ways to manipulate God, force his hand, or appease him so that he would give us these things. Please, come out from the wilderness, stop begging for manna to fall from heaven. The days of the wilderness has ended, come into the land and tend it.
"Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God." (1Cor 1:24).
"All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ." (Eph 1:3).
"For all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours," (1Cor 3:21-22).
In Christ you already have the power of God—yes all of God's power. In Christ all of heaven have been emptied and poured on you. You have all the blessings you will ever need, but physically and spiritual. All the spiritual gifts you will ever need are available here in this Land, you only need to learn how to tend the Land. However, there are those who would be too lazy to tend the Land. We have been taught a culture of laziness. We were taught that we do not need to tend the Land, that only the pastors are meant to tend the Land, and we should all become beggers at the feet of the pastors.
The dream of the rich man is that the poor should worship him. Yes, they prefer not to teach the poor how to be rich, they want the poor to be dependent on them so that they can have power over them. Spiritual impartation is likened to going to the rich man to beg for some gifts—the same gifts that you can get by yourself if you learn to work and be rich. There is nothing bad in collecting gifts or asking for gifts, but when you are taught that it is your normal life and you have to be begging for gifts from one place to another, then you are being served a great injustice.
Most Christians have been turned into beggers because the rich (the gifted men) wants to be worship. They have taught us to be beggers, to heavily depend on them, to run to them for every little thing when we all share the same Land. Wake up! The same Land (Christ) where they got their riches is also yours. You can tend this Land and become as rich as them, or even richer. Don't let anybody deceive you that certain riches of Christ can only come through impartation—that's a lie.
Over a thousand years in the history of the Church there was scarcely any supernatural. There was no gifts of the spirit, the fivefold ministry was extinct, and there was hardly any miracle. So how did people got back the gifts of the Spirit and the fivefold ministry? Did the Apostles of old came back from death to give them impartation? Of course no, these men became sick and tired of being so powerless when they knew they were serving a Almighty supernatural Being. They were tired of reading all these miracles in the Bible and not have it manifest in their lives.
So they press and press deep into Christ till they were able to work out the power of God living inside them all this while. The people that spoke in tongues in the early 20s after speaking in tongues had been extinct for over a thousand years, how did they do it? Did the apostles of old came to lay hands on them? Did they receive any impartation? No, they pressed, they tend the Land. Charles Parham held a Bible study, he gave his students an assignment to study the books of Acts and find out the initial evidence of the baptismal of the Holy Spirit.
After studying they were all convinced that speaking in tongues is the initial evidence of being baptized by the Holy Spirit. And as they continued to press that experience broke loose in their midst, they started speaking in tongues. That experience sparked the Pentecostal Revival and spread the whole body of Christ. It is much easier to go to a rich man and beg for a gift. But the Lord has called us to tend the Land. While it is good for us to help each other and give each other gifts, we must all learn to tend the Land. We cannot afford to nurture laziness in our midst.
How can a land filled with thousands of people but only a hundred is rich, and the rest are taught to pursue the rich people about begging for substance. Yes, that is the Christianity we are practicing today. People are pursuing men of God up and down, struggling to touch their clothes, begging to be prayed for, begging and even paying for impartation. There are more teaching about impartation than how to tend the Land yourself. This is a conscious effort to keep us in perpetual poverty.
Men wants to be worship, they love it when you are on your knees begging them, ready to do anything for them. They enjoy that treatment and they want things to remain that way so they continue to promote the teaching of impartation. I am not saying impartation is bad, but when the teaching of impartation has become the main teaching then the people will be subjected to spiritual poverty and a life of constant begging. We simply cannot continue to like this. We must exalt the need to tend the Land above the teaching of impartation, otherwise the Land will have very few rich men.
If a land has very few rich men yet overwhelmed with poor people then that land is said to be underdeveloped. Yes, Christ our land is underdeveloped. Look at the Church today, so powerless and weak. We have no voice in the nation, the government kicks us around, we are nobody. We have no influence, nothing. Yes, that is the characteristics of an underdeveloped nation, it has no say among the nations but rather falls under exploitation.
In order for this Land to be developed we need more people tending the Land. This is why I have refused to use impartation in my training on the supernatural. It's intentional, the body of Christ needs to stop being so lazy and learn how to tend the Land. Oh, there is so much glory, power and blessings that you can attain if only you stop being so lazy and start pressing hard, tending the Land. Yes, nurture Christ the power of God in you, for he is already inside you and you only need to nurture him still he blossom. Tend and nurture all of the fullness of God in you till you become filled with his glory.
