Possessing Our Possessions: Does It Work?

By Fred Pruitt

I was with a brother some time ago who remarked that he had fought these things we say when he first heard them, because even though he really hoped they could be true, still he thought it was just too good to be true.

His question, “Does it work?”, is one often asked.

This can be answered simply: Yes.

Because it is not an “it” – i.e. teaching, doctrine, message, precept, idea, philosophy, theory, theology, hypothesis – but the Living God dwelling in we His temples. HE works!

Jeremiah 31
32  After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34  And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Does it work?

When we find the willing in us, because we have discovered it is His willing, to forsake all we have and give to the poor, then, yes, “it” works.

When we find the willing in us, because we have discovered it is His willing, to be baptized with the baptism He was baptized with (the Cross), yes, “it” works.

If our joints are poured out like water and we wonder why God has forsaken us from time to time, then yes, “it” works.

When we find the willing in us, because we have discovered it is His willing, to find faith as substance, and to walk around a stranger in the earth, in sheepskins and goatskins, ready to dwell in caves, and sometimes to only see the Promise afar off, and at times think we’re the offscouring of the earth, then yes, “it” works.

If the only thing that satisfies us is God Himself, the Bread of Life, then yes, “it” works. (For “it” is HE!)

However, looking for some kind of bread that perishes, then, no, “it” doesn’t work. If we seek a sign, if we want only loaves and fishes, “it” doesn’t work.

Jesus said:

John 4:
34  Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
35  Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.

and –

John 5:
17  But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.

and one more –

29  Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

And where he has sent Him is into our hearts whereby we cry, “Abba Father!”

And THERE (within and flowing out of the depths of our hearts) HE works.

Postscript:

We are given the gift, by the Spirit, to thoroughly see that He works, and realize that it is not “in spite of” me, or with “me” pushed aside so that Christ may come forth, but rather that it is “by me” or “as me.” We see that from eternity to eternity He wanted to come forth as the “me” He created “me” to be. His delight is to flow forth out of our lives as the fully recovered selves He created us to be – He yet we, we yet He – an indivisible union which produces the life of faith, love and intercession. And “intercession” finds its fulfillment not in its “own” self, but in giving its “own life” for the selves of others, that THEY may shine, even as Jesus has demonstrated and done in all of us.

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