Pressing Into His Hem

Pressing into His Hem

"God has further places for us to go, places unknown to us now, but found in His Presence."

The place of God's purpose is birthed solely out of personal desperation and pursuit. Revelation doesn't come from hands being laid on us, or sitting under someone else's anointing, which is simply insight and wisdom. Revelation comes from pressing through into God ourselves. It is there that we attract His attention. God isn't looking at the coattails of others to find the sons that will release the Kingdom. He is looking at those who have pressed through to grab His hem for that destiny!

"And a woman who had a hemorrhage (KJV "an issue") for twelve years, and could not be healed by anyone, came up behind Him, and touched the fringe of His cloak; and immediately her hemorrhage stopped. And Jesus said, 'Who is the one who touched Me?' And while they were all denying it, Peter said, 'Master, the multitudes are crowding and pressing upon You.' But Jesus said, 'Someone did touch Me, for I was aware that power had gone out of Me.'

And when the woman saw that she had not escaped notice, she came trembling and fell down before Him, and declared in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched Him, and how she had been immediately healed. And He said to her, 'Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.'" (Luke 8:43-48)

The issues of our hearts will never be resolved by inheritance; they will only be resolved by passionate pursuit of Him. It's not the anointing of men that we should seek and it's not by adhering to the principles of those who pressed through themselves--it is by our own pressing that we touch Him. My heart is not to follow after the anointings of God on men; my heart is to follow the anointing of God that flows from Him. I don't want the coattails of position, but rather, I want the hem that is His!

When we enter into a realm of simply being given an inheritance without ever pressing through ourselves, we don't understand that it is His Presence alone that gives revelation. It is His Presence alone that releases the purposes of God through our lives. It is His Presence alone that heals and delivers and saves. Everything else is simply an echo of what another man or woman heard--it is simply the articulation and reformulation of what has already been pressed into by others.

God has further places for us to go, places unknown to us now, but found in His Presence.

"And wherever He entered villages, or cities, or countryside, they were laying the sick in the market places, and entreating Him that they might just touch the fringe of His cloak; and as many as touched it were being cured." (Mark 6:56)

Heavenly Warehouses

Recently, I was caught up in His Presence and was taken to a place that He indicated was "His Warehouses." Inside each of these beautiful buildings were things I had never perceived before--things unheard of, things unseen--and there was an atmosphere of "newness" in each of these buildings. I realized there was so much more that I needed to explore--things I didn't need to read about in books by others who had been there, things I didn't need to hear about in a conference by those who had experienced them, and things that I didn't need to watch happen to others. But rather things I pressed into on my own with Him--the Lover of my soul!

The coattails are the trains of men; the hem is the train of God! It is this we contend for. It is there that the issues of our hearts are healed, restored, resolved, and undone!

Danny Steyne
Mountain of Worship
www.mountainofworship.com