8. I Ask for All Word Fulfilled

Whatever we might ask, we receive from Him. – Almost everyone attempts to explain why this is not true, mostly by adding qualifications designed to prevent people from asking, or, worse yet, believing they have received. Prosperity preachers teach that God is telling us the truth; in actuality, they are closer to the truth than the poverty preachers who turn their listeners away from this promise.

But what is the bottom line? The bottom line against this promise is always the fundamental claim that Jesus Christ is NOT come now inside of flesh. Yet it’s all a subterfuge, for everyone is turned aside from the REAL issue.

The Real Issue. The real issue is found in the question, “Ask what?” And, of course, the simple answer is – “Whatever.” But a simple answer can still hide the real issue, for the real issue is always – “What do you want?”

And yet, “What do you want” holds only two possibilities. You can want to control your circumstances OR you can want to know God. Controlling your circumstances goes in two directions, both outward, that is, either “give me stuff” or “change this circumstance,” including “heal my body.” Almost every argument places the asking as outward only.

What Really Happened. Now, this set of verses, from 3:19 to 4:5, really is one passage and ought to be known as presenting one topic. More than that, as I go back and forth across every thought in this passage, I see only one thing – the intense issue of the central part of my life story. This passage is extraordinarily personal to me, and so I must share it in that way, for it must also be personal to you.

I am ever more overwhelmed as I now see ever more the perfection of God in the events of my life. And what I am after is to unveil to you what really happened inside of me on August 6, 2006, when I heard the words, “Speak what God says you are.”

A Personal Account. What I heard in that moment, shouting into me as all the Voice of God, was the COMMAND – Believe you have received ALL WORD FULFILLED!!!

I intend to approach this page differently from anything before now. I want to give a personal account of the Word, me, and the path of my life and then draw whatever boxes needing to appear on the page out from this account. We will begin with the statements of faith for these eleven verses, which I find myself including with very little addition and no moving around. I am reading this, not only through faith in the substance of God, but as an actual description of the issues of my own life.

The Statements of Faith. ~ I am out from the truth; my heart is fully assured inside of God. God is greater than all condemnation. My heart is free of all blame and fault. I enter always into God with all confidence. Whatever I ask of God, I receive from Him. I ask God for the full completion of Christ inside of me. God gives me all that I ask. I ask for all word fulfilled. God’s word is completed inside of me. I prove out all spirits; I refuse dishonesty. I speak the same word that is Jesus; I speak Christ my only life. Jesus is come in my flesh. I am out from God; I have overcome and defeated all spirits of anti-Christ. Greater is Jesus [as Spirit Word] in me than Satan [as spirit word] in the world. ~

A Challenge. We begin with a CHALLENGE to all ministers and teachers inside of Christianity. – Why do you not ask God to fulfill His Word as He means it inside of you and then believe that you have received what you ask? And we require an honest answer.

You see, the issue is always the Spirit of Truth VERSUS the spirit of anti-Christ. And the spirit of anti-Christ seems to prevail.

Here is an honest answer. – I do not ask God to fulfill His Word as He means it inside of me and then believe I have received BECAUSE I do NOT want to know God; I much prefer to manipulate and control God’s people (my outward circumstances) for self-gain.

The Great War. Look across this passage, phrase by phrase. You will see that it’s all about honesty versus dishonesty. This contest then shows itself between knowing God as our hearts versus separating Christ from the flesh. This is the second part of anti-Christ. The first part of anti-Christ is to separate between Jesus and Christ, to drive Jesus far away. And the second part of anti-Christ is to separate between Christ and the flesh, that is, Christ against me.

More than that, the issues of the Great War are found inside this passage, pointing entirely towards the Apocalypse. Confidence inside of God casts down every voice that speaks against as well as the spirit behind that contradiction.

The Ten Virgins. The parable of the ten virgins. – Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps (Matthew 25:3-4). The oil is the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Truth. The five foolish had just enough oil to light their lamps for a little while, whereas the five wise had the same oil in their lamps PLUS a large jug of oil to refill the lamps.

Why the difference? The oil costs money. Asking God to fulfill His Word in us costs us everything we might hold onto in this world. Yet that asking always begins with the Spirit – “God, immerse me into Your Spirit.”

Running the Gauntlet. There is NO knowing of Word or Truth or God apart from being immersed into the Spirit, apart from being filled to overflowing with the knowing of the Spirit. And so I want to trace out this Great Contention across the whole course of my life, for the boxes must be personal.

I have spoken of “running the gauntlet.” That gauntlet was right at ten years in length from February of 1988 to February of 1998. At every step of that run, I was being beaten by two gospels, one on either side of me. God’s intention was for me to FAIL and, in total failure, to despair. God was after “no sufficiency in myself” as driven by the complete opposition of these two gospels.

Two Opposing Words. Those two gospels are the same run inside our text, knowing God through Christ inside my heart VERSUS the savage separation between Christ and me.

God positioned these two opposing words on either side of me in the fall of 1987, just before my 31^st birthday. The gospel of separation was Calvinism filtered through Buddy Cobb, very, very “Bible.” And the gospel of knowing God, that is, Life, came through Jane Miller, very, very “Spirit.” My nous, my intellectual mind, went with the first, and my phroneo, my heart-gut mind went with the second. But I was not released to RUN until February of 1988, when God removed from my gut the demons of fear from LSD.

My Conclusion. These were the most intense years of searching my Bible so that I might KNOW what God actually says, especially at the beginning of that run, ages 31 to 33. Here was my conclusion after that run was over, an absolute Covenant with God inside of me. – JESUS WILL BE more real on the inside of me than Don Howat and Abel Ramirez ever could be on the outside of me. In other words – the Person of JESUS will fill my flesh. Yet that Person is also every Word God speaks.

Now, I want to set before you the Words God planted in me prior to this RUN and then the Words He planted in me through the beginning of the gauntlet.

God Made Personal. Although I asked Jesus into my heart when I was seven, God began His relationship with me at age nineteen with two words, audible in my spirit, His Voice saying, “My son.” Those two words made everything utterly Personal to God and utterly personal to me. I have never thought differently.

Prior to God making everything personal between Him and me, God planted two mighty things inside of me. The first came when I was twelve. God planted in my heart-gut mind a love of the fantastic (Spirit) and a hatred of dishonesty. And inside that planting was a call to intercession out from knowing God.

Give Thanks to Ask and Believe. The second word came when I was fifteen. – Give thanks in and for all things. You see what that Seed did? It began the turn away from controlling my outward and towards the fulfillment of every Word God speaks inside of me.

Then, after God made it personal between Him and me, He planted four critical words into me prior to the great RUN yet ahead. The first of those four words was through Watchman Nee – Ask God to fulfill His Word inside of you and then believe you have received all you have asked.

The Spirit Gives Life. The second was a word of the Spirit, the words coming alive and personal inside of me. – “The Spirit of Truth WILL lead you into all truth.” The third was the voice of God inside my heart. – “Is not My Word my will?”

And the fourth came through Sam Fife, the single most important word he preached into me. – “It is the Spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I speak to you are Spirit and they are life.”

Now, every one of these seven words are inside of our passage – the fight of speaking between Christ and not-Christ.

Seven Initial Words. Let’s list these seven words.
1. Love the fantastic and dream of what could be; hate dishonesty and all lying about what is.
2. Give thanks inside of and for the sake of all things.
3. It’s utterly personal between Me and you, My son.
4. Ask Me to fulfill My word in you and then believe You have received – and I will fill you with My Spirit.
5. My Spirit will lead you into all truth.
6. My will and desire is My Word fulfilled in you.
7. The Words of Jesus are Spirit inside of you and your life.

A Final Instruction. I may not have been able to tell you at the time, but these words were ABSOLUTE inside of me before I was thirty.

One final note before the Word that came into me at the beginning of the gauntlet. When I was 26, God confronted me with dire instruction. – “Do NOT put My Words into your intellect, but plant them as I speak them inside your phroneo, your heart-gut mind.”

Then, read the chapters “The Season of Deliverance I and II” to get the power of the gauntlet God sent me down and the deep issues inside of it. It is so important to me that you KNOW the seven words God planted in me and then told me to RUN!

Running for My Life. I was running for my LIFE. And in that run, I searched my Bible to KNOW what God was really all about.

The first two that came to me from that search was the BATTLE. – “Yeah hath God said,” VERSUS “Let it be to me according to Thy Word.” The second two were the goal, the end of my run. – “Conformed to the image of His Son,” the ruling verse of the Bible, and – Enter BOLDLY into all that is God. The third two were the how – “Cast down the accuser,” and – “Rivers of Spirit flow out from your belly.”

Yet there was a seventh word, one I could not have said.

Carrying Precious Word. That seventh verse was at the heart of my great test, God’s removal of Korah from me in the proving of Christ, and His voice to me, “Son, you passed the test.” That verse I can place only now – By this we have known Love because He set forth His soul for us AND WE ALSO are committed to – Love one another.

Look at our passage in 1 John. Have I not described the heart of that passage? – Believe inside of Jesus as every Word God speaks and love one another. Yet look at that long run, ten years of carrying precious word inside myself, frightened out of my wits.

Beaten with Whips. Listen to the voices screaming at me for ten years, beating me with whips, the “God” of Calvinism. – God hates you. God is against you. You are in trouble with God. Hear and obey, loser. Know your place, loser. Your will is always at war against God. What you think is your calling is NOT of God. What you think is God speaking to you is NOT God speaking. You don’t know yourself, but I do, and you are the proudest man I have ever known.

All these and so much more, welded intrinsically into so much speaking of ‘word’ at me. This is the spirit of anti-Christ speaking against Christ now come in Daniel Yordy’s flesh.

One Word Most Personal. And all with Calvin’s crowning words, “When you see God, you will KNOW just how EVIL you really are.”

Yet in all of this, I have left out the one Word that defined my own heart every stumbling step of that way. That one Word that came out from God’s first words spoken to me, “It’s all personal between you and Me, My son.” Here is that word that I HAD TO KNOW. – If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

This was LIFE or DEATH for me, and I did not want to die. I MUST have Father make His home with me, therefore I MUST keep His Word.

My Despair. And this was my ABSOLUTE despair at the end of that gauntlet in February of 1998. – “I cannot keep His Word.” And the Absolute Covenant with a God who makes everything personal between Him and me, coming out from that despair, “I must have a Savior. I will know Jesus for real, and I will know nothing else.”

Yet what was it inside my own character that kept that path in a straight line? – It was my love of the fantastic, that is, “Christ, not I, yet I live,” that is, Jesus in my flesh, and my hatred of dishonesty, that is, “I, not Christ.”

A couple more things before we look at our statement of faith for this lesson.

A Mighty Explosion. I count at least 25 powerful things planted by God as His Word inside of me. Every single one of those Words reverberated all through my being. And I have left out, though it was also very much there – that you might be filled with all the fulness of God. And on August 6, 2006, when Joel Osteen said, “Speak what God says you are,” every single one of those Words EXPLODED in all THIRST and all GLORY inside of me.

But then also, through the nine months of February to November, 2008, every single one of those anti-Christ voices screamed and wailed against me without let-up, AND I REFUSED THEM. I cast them down.

Asking God – Defeating Anti-Christ. Now, our statement of faith is “I Ask for All Word Fulfilled.” And why not? What could possibly prevent any honest Christian from asking God, “Let it be to me according to what You mean by what you say,” and then believing they have received what they ask?

Well, the problem is that when a personal God gives answer to their request of Him, God’s answer is Christ Jesus in Person, come now inside their hearts of flesh. And thus we see that our asking God to fulfill ALL His Word inside of us as Christ Jesus our only life is matched with defeating the spirit of anti-Christ.

Defining Anti-Christ. Let’s paraphrase that verse. – You are out from God, little children, personal between you and the Father, and have defeated the anti-Christ spirit and cast it down, because the Jesus who is inside of you, come now in your flesh, the Completion of all that God speaks, is greater than the one who speaks his anti-Christ nonsense in the present world.

The term “anti-Christ” is found ONLY in these two short passages in 1 John and is CLEARLY defined.

Anti-Christ: 1. A spirit that speaks contrary words. 2. Always plural. 3. Common and familiar to all. 4. Intent on driving Jesus far away while still offering “Christ.” 5. Intent on separating Christ Jesus from your earthly heart of flesh.

A Really Dumb Idea. For our study of the Apocalypse, coming up, then, we set out this fact. The definition of “The Antichrist” as an individual person who rules as a vicious dictator over the whole earth for a short period of time is not just UN-Biblical, and it’s certainly not “fantastic.” Such an idea is just plain stupid. It does one thing only; it turns everyone away from the real Apocalypse, but only in their intellectual, sensual, and rebellious imaginations.

I now see just two boxes on this page. First will be a very large “Ask and Believe,” and second will be “Anti-Christ (as defined by John).” In fact, let’s make the “Ask and Believe” our prayer for this session.

Ask and Believe. ~~~ Look at me, God; I belong to You. Let it be to me according to Your word.

Jesus, You say that whatever I ask of God, I will receive from Him. God, my Father, I ask that You fulfill in me, in my flesh and in all completion, every Word You speak in the gospel, as You mean that Word. And having asked, Father, I believe and know that I have received all completion of Word. Nothing You speak is found separate from me and from my daily life in this present flesh. Your Word has become my flesh.

God I ask that You symmorphose me with the image of Your Son, that You make me just like Jesus. - I share the same form with Jesus as the revelation of God; I am just like the Lord Jesus.

God, I ask that You fill me with all of Your fulness. - I am filled with all the fulness of God.

God, I ask that You overflow out from me in every direction. - Rivers of Spirit flow out from me everywhere I go, bringing life and healing to all whom I pass by.

God, I ask that You fulfill in me the full measure of casting down the accuser for the sake of the Church. - I cast down all that opposes Christ, in my own heavens and in all the cosmos.

God, I ask that I know Christ Jesus as my own life, even as every Word You speak. - Christ is my life; I have no other life.

God, I ask that You give me the heart that embraces everything I find inside of you with all boldness. - I call everything I find inside of God as my own. I know no consciousness of sin.

God, I ask that my confidence in Your Word fulfilled be the foundation of every step I take. - I walk in all confidence that my every step is Father and I sharing life together.

God, I ask that I love my brothers and sisters. - I love others with all the Love that is God.

God, I ask that I set creation free. - I set creation free; death is swallowed up by LIFE.

I live inside of Jesus; Jesus lives inside of me. I know the Father through Jesus Sent into me. I put the Lord Jesus Christ upon all that I am. ~~~

Asking and Overcoming. The words that I speak to you are Spirit and they are life.

The session, “I Overcome the World,” coming up soon, will be as the second half of this lesson. In that session we will see how abundance of Word entering into us through our faith then becomes our victory over and the defeat of the world and all that opposes Christ.

The key is “our faith.” Our faith is asking concerning every Word of the gospel and then believing we have received. Our faith is our utter confidence that every Word God speaks is true, every Word is already fulfilled, that is, the faith of the Son of God.

Anti-Christ (as defined by John). ~ A plurality of fallen spirits who speak, into and through humans, words that are contrary to Christ in some way. These spirits express themselves primarily in Christian circles and are familiar to every believer in Jesus in personal ways. Christians who speak and think these words that are contrary to Christ do not know from whence they come and imagine themselves ‘reasonable.’ These false words work to separate between Jesus and ‘Christ’ and to separate between Christ Jesus and the flesh of the believer inside of whom He has come. They are most known as “Not here, not now, and not me.” These false spirits and their false words become starkly visible in the presence of those who speak the same word that is Christ made personal as them. They are hostile against Christ made visible. ~

Love out from God. The five wise virgins are much more than “filled with the Spirit.” They have also used the full out-pouring of the Spirit wisely. That means three things. First, it means that they ask God to fulfill all Word inside of them by the Spirit – by the word of their testimony. Second, it means that they cast down every word that speaks against – by the Blood of the Lamb.

But the third is most important, for the River flowing out is also a River of Love – and by laying down their lives for their brothers and sisters. The full meaning of “oil in the vessel” is Love out from God.

Reading for Next Time. The next lesson is titled “I Love out from God.” For next time, read 1 John 4:6-16 several times, again 11 verses. Inside of this short passage, John establishes absolutely that seeing God, even as the One sitting upon the throne, is seeing Christians love one another – the Apocalypse.

Beloved, we should actively love one another; because love is always flowing out from God; and everyone who loves out from God has been conceived of God and knows God. – And we have come to know and have come to believe the love that is God inside of us. God is love, and the one who dwells inside of love, dwells inside of God, and God dwells inside of him.