Bibledoor ajar supports Aloneness with God for true transformation

" We purchase books on how to get transformation. We invite speakers, invent programs and make noise as the prophets of Baal did to get God's attention. Perhaps at best we get a splash of what we are looking for, for a day or two. But on the following prayer meeting, we often look in vain for just one of the new converts who were at the altar last Sunday. Too often once again we are forced to say with Jeremiah: The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. (Jer. 8:20). Enduring transformation seldom occurs unless a man has a personal, private, protracted encounter with his God on a regular basis."

                          Reimar Schultze

God knew that Jacob needed a real breakthrough and understanding of the blessings he was being granted by his God in order to face his foremost enemy. Passivity, or especially his natural conniving, would not lead Jacob into the fullness of his inheritance. It is sometimes very difficult to realize how little we speak the truth, how devious and lying we can be to attempt a status in life, even a spiritual one, but these are the very attributes with which the Spirit of Truth has a problem. We all want to be more spiritually assertive in the face of our "enemies" and the enemies of the Kingdom, and we would do well if we could ponder the source of true spiritual ability. May we see what Jacob saw--a renewal of strength and truth that can come only by securing it supernaturally. The last thing Jacob needed was to approach Esau without joyful vigor received from God. Only this vigor would free him from the thoughts of being confined by the strength of Esau.

Jesus had many enemies within and without the religious community while He carried out His ministry. Yet, He resisted the "holy" men and confronted all enemies of God with a joyful vigor stemming from His undeniable relationship with God. Yes, meeting Esau was a challenge for Jacob, but it was a challenge on the road to a greater place. He was not being called to share the glory of Jacob with Esau, but rather the glory of his God. This is what Esau needed to witness. Indeed, this is what the world needs to witness as the enemy tries so hard to destroy our destiny. Try to envision the vertical and horizontal relationships that Jesus prayed for and so wanted the world to see. (The glory that You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and You in Me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that You sent Me and loved them even as you loved me. John 17).