If we only knew the glory of the exposing. If we could only see the benefit of exposure. Nobody likes to be exposed, but it’s those that run away from the exposure that get exposed. It's those that hide themselves or put a mask on that get the masked ripped off. Thank you, God, for exposure! I want to be exposed now so that I don’t have to be exposed later. I want to take off the mask now so that there will be nothing to rip off later.
If you do not expose my roots, I can’t get rid of my bad fruit! I wouldn’t know what troubles me, lest you exposed it to me! There is healing in the revealing. There are things within that effect everything without, everything around us. Everything is a matter of the heart. Out of the heart flows the issues of life! Life and death are in the power of the tongue but even the tongue speaks from the heart.
The heart is deceitful, who can know its ways. Not even you know the ways of your own heart. Only God knows the heart of a man. Only God knows your heart! You don’t know your heart as good as God does. There are things in your heart that you would never know are there lest He revealed it to you. This is why we need to cry out for an exposing! This is why we need to cry for strong conviction.
God’s ways are higher than ours. His thoughts are not our thoughts. If I don’t know God's thoughts, how can I even know if my thoughts are aligned with His? Lest He exposed it to me. How can I know what’s God or what’s not without exposure? We need to rip out the rug. We need to see what’s under the floorboards. There are many things that are obvious and there are some things that are hidden. I need to expose what is hidden. That what is hidden would not control what is seen. There's an unseen realm and I cannot see that realm without God exposing.
I can’t see His face without an exposing. Unless the veil be torn. God does not savor what men savor. We have to know what God hates and loves. We have to even know what we hate and love, sometimes we don’t. Sometimes we really need God to show and expose the real intentions of our hearts. If not, we will never see it. Our mind can cover up our heart so much that we think our intentions are pure but after layer on top of layer is removed, we start to see that there is a seed and a layer that is not.
It's time to stop running from the sifting. We need to ask God to sift us or else the devil will sift us. God wants to sift us from the flesh and the spirit. The flesh is the dirt and the Spirit is the gold. Sifting doesn't feel good, but in the end, there’s glory. In the end, the gold gets to shine brighter than it did in the dirt because the dirt dimmed it from the light of the sun. It covered it and smothered it.
Yet when gold stands alone it shines. We need to be sifted to shine. We need to cut the flesh man from the spirit man for our spirit man to shine in the light. When I am exposed by the light, I shine with the light! The shining of the light is a good thing because the devil can’t hide in you anymore. The thief that lives in the night is the flesh that hides in the heart.
The religious system cries out to God that they would not be exposed but those who are set apart cry out for God to expose their hearts even more that they would be set apart even more. That the sword would go even deeper in them and cut even deeper roots to undo even more bad fruit.
We need to stop running away from the sword and start running to it. Even in the Old Testament, the sword was required to circumcise and now our hearts must be circumcised from all carnality, from all flesh. We need to take the sword to our heart and cut out every thought and intent of man. Who knows the heart? God, you know my heart! Now please show it to me! Reveal it to me! Expose me! That I may see the depth of my entanglements, the depths of the things that hold me back, and I can be set free!
There is freedom is exposure! There is healing in the revealing. I can never get healed, I can never repent unless I see deep down what I need to repent of, what I need to get healed from. Yes, you can see all your fruit because it’s on the outside. Yet what’s on the inside, what’s in the roots, is what is producing these fruits. What about the stems and seeds that are deep down in the ground that I can’t see, that are producing these things in my life? I want to see the deep things in my heart so that I would not be prevented from the deep things of God.
Deal with me, God, so that the devil cannot steal from me. The fowler only has power over us because the seed of the word never gets into our hearts. When the ground is hard, the seed never gets in the ground and the birds of the air come in and swipe it up and the word of God is stolen from my heart. I need my ground tilled. I need it tilled so far to the bottom that God would get to the bottom of me. It’s when I hit rock bottom that I can stand on the rock. The rock is deep in the ground and it’s the firmest foundation.
The spirit of God deep within me, deep within my spirit man that lives past all my flesh and carnality, in my innermost being, that’s where the freedom is. The living water comes out of the rock, out of my belly, out of my deep depths. Though I have to remove all the dirt. I have to till it all until I get to the bottom to the solid rock, that I would start to live from the inside out. I want every part of me to be exposed that all that’s left is Jesus Christ the rock, my fortress. That when exposing time comes, all that is seen is Christ.
I want to expose myself now in secret. That way God can reward me in the open with a revealing of Christ in me. What I do in secret will be revealed in public, will be revealed by the light. There will be no more secrets, all hidden lives will be exposed. Those who expose themselves in secret will not have to be exposed publicly. Don’t hide yourself from God. Run to Him! Don’t run away from the cross – run to it! The cross may look like death but that death is going to produce life! Because next is the resurrection of life.
You can never be healed from something unless you see what is causing you to be wounded. When we see the root problem is when we see the fruit problem. Repentance rips out the root because true repentance brings true deliverance. I want to be delivered. I want to be healed, but I have to be revealed. We, as the body of Christ, need to start crying out to God to expose our hearts. So that we would be made pure. That we would see our impurities and turn from them. Thank God for the fire because the fire brings our impurities to the surface level. It shows me what’s in me. It shows me what still has a hold on me. That way I can let the deliverer arise and deliver me.
We wonder why sometimes we’re so blind but the Bible says blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. If I want to see, I have to be pure. The purer I am the more I see. I want to be pure so I have to get rid of the impure things. The impurity is like the fog that fogs up my glasses.
The road to purity is the unwinding of our impurity! The prideful will never see. Your first step is to take off the blindfold of pride that says everything is fine and I have arrived. If we think we have arrived, we need the most deliverance. We think we got delivered once and we’re good. That’s pride. We are being transformed day by day, renewed day by day. Every day trading flesh for spirit. Putting our flesh on the altar and in return, we receive fire from heaven.
We need to be willing to see the good, the bad, and the ugly in us. When we are willing, the blindfold comes off and the light breaks in. Death to self hurts but even Jesus had the angels strengthen Him to go to the cross. God will strengthen those who ask. He will anoint your head for burial. He will anoint your feet to walk to the cross and endure the cross. Anoint our feet, Father, that our feet would stay on the narrow road!
Endure the pouring out of the oil on you and you will endure death. The oil will help you endure. The anointing will help us die to self. Paul said to kill the deeds of the flesh by the Spirit. The Spirit of God is our helper in times of trouble, in times of need, and He will be there in times of death that we may have life!
We always try to cover up our heart or hold in something that comes out of our heart, but we can't hide things anymore or hold things back. We need to let it be exposed that it would die! We need to unveil so that God can derail it. We need to ask for an exposing of our heart. It’s God’s job to expose. It’s your job to repent. Even Jesus said to bear fruit in keeping with repentance. Don’t get ready to run, get ready to repent, that He can raise you up to be sent.
Sin wounds us, Jesus heals us. The blood makes it white as snow. There is healing in the revealing. Let it all be revealed that it can all be healed.
By Joe Pinto
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