Establishing The Landmarks

Spiritual Pathways Part 1

Establishing the Landmarks

(With accreditation to Dr Tayo Adeyemi on whose revelation I base this talk)

· Over the past couple of months we’ve had input that has said a few different thins: we’ve said that the church is a gateway to heaven, we’ve said that we have the power and authority as Christians to shift things, change things in the spiritual realm, because everything that happens in the physical has a parallel or root in the spiritual

· We have said that the Kingdom of God is near, and simply needs to be accessed and that when we pray, and when we worship and when we suffer persecution, all of these things cause a shift in the heavenlies – like Elijah and the rain – something is released in the spiritual, but by persistence and consistence in our prayers we can make that manifest here on earth in the physical

· What I want to now look at over the next 4 Sundays is the fact that there are people in the Bible who did certain things, lived a certain way, that accessed something in the spiritual realm and it gave them an authority that was not seen on everyone – a rare authority and power.

· Today I want to look again at Jacob and then also at Abraham, and see what things they did that we can learn from, and we can see that there are certain spiritual pathways we can take that have spiritual impact, that cause an open heaven.

Jeremiah 6:16

· ‘Ask for the old paths where the good way is’

Proverbs 22:28

· ‘Do not remove the ancient landmarks’

· These two verses speak pf the fact that there are way to God that have been mapped out, land marked and secured and that we are not forget these landmarks and that we are to seek out the ancient pathways, those times when we had an encounter with God.

· Heaven is near, God is near, but he needs to be accessed – it’s like this neighbourhood at the top of this road – Clover Hill is just at the top of this road, but you will need to find a road to get there.

· We can access God in our prayers, and yes He is all around us and with us – but I’m talking about accessing His power and authority, having a deep encounter with God which is possible

· These verses we read speak of the fact that there are pathways to God, and likewise pathways away from God, and that when we have had a revelation from God we need to landmark that place, nail it down so that we can refer back to it, return back to that place for sustenance.

· Ancient landmarks help us to locate spiritual pathways

· When Jacob had the dream of the stairway to heaven, he woke up saying surely this is the gateway to heaven - he was so impacted by what he had encountered that he needed to landmark it, so that he could return there.

Genesis 28:18

· He takes the rock that had been his pillow and says ‘this place is going to be land marked, because I had an encounter with God in this place’

· God recognises our efforts to make spiritual landmarks – Genesis’ 31:13 – He acknowledges it and names Himself after it

Genesis 35:1

· God tells Jacob that he needs to return to the landmark he had made because there would be a fresh anointing and encounter.

· Later in V13 it says that God went up from Jacob – for Him to go up He must have also come down – where did God meet with him? At Bethel – he had found the ancient landmarks and marked out the spiritual pathway.

· Now – you might say how on earth does that apply to us? How do we set up landmarks of our encounters with God? Well, I’m glad you asked!

· We all have had encounters with God – to a greater or lesser degree – a time when you gave your life to Jesus, when He blessed you, when something happened that marked your walk with God – a stand-out occurrence, a moment of significance.

· We need to landmark those times, those occurrences so that we can find them again and return to them and see what it was that gained us access to \god there ton that degree.

· God is saying ‘mark where you found me so that you can come back to me’

· Nail this moment down because one day you are going to need to return to it.

· But not just us – others will learn from our experiences with God, by reading and finding our spiritual landmarks.