After the Day of Visitation ...come Moments of Visitation

... Let the earth hear the words of  my mouth. May my teaching(s)) drop like the rain, my speech condense like the dew; like gentle rain on grass  like showers on NEW GROWTH. (Deu 32:1-2 NRSV)

Isa 42:20-22 20 You have seen many things, but you do not observe or apprehend their true meaning. His ears are open, but he hears not! It was the Lord's pleasure for His righteousness' sake [in accordance with a steadfast and consistent purpose] to magnify instruction and revelation and glorify them. But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snared in holes and hidden in houses of bondage. They have become a prey, with no one to deliver them, a spoil, with no one to say, Restore them! [This shows the condition that will ensue as Israel's punishment for not recognizing the Servant of the Lord and the day of His visit among them.] [Luke 19:41-44.] AMP

In Isaiah 42 God speaks of the Messiah coming, conquering and the consequences of missing the day of His visitation. Isa 42:21 clearly states that for His righteousness sake, He wanted to magnify instruction and revelation and glorify them. The longer we reject THE DAY OF VISITATION –the more robbed and plundered we become.

So first things first. After your day of visitation... His moments of visitation will begin to come. Behold He does a new thing, shall you not know it?

John 3:3 Jesus answered him, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that unless a person is born again (anew, from above), he cannot ever see (know, be acquainted with, and experience) the kingdom of God. AMP

His Moments of Visitation
When rain falls into an open well, it has had a visitation by the rain... whether gentle drops or a torrential rain, a visitation nevertheless. Some of us think that a visitation must be an overwhelming memorable encounter …that is entirely untrue. Let’s draw an analogy with the rain falling and the way revelation comes.

Once a raindrop visits a well, it merges with all the others that have previously fallen. Their substance becomes inseparable. As it accumulates and fills to overflowing, you cannot distinguish “which drop is which” or at “what specific time in history” that it fell. As visitations come, His nature, His character, all that He is begins to accumulate and fill us. There is no way to tell which visitation will be “the major one”. Could it be they are so interconnected that each is utterly dependent on the one that preceded it?

Before we discuss the ways of He visits, let’s lay a foundation that is prerequisite to knowing the source of the visitation. All revelation is linked to Jesus. Therefore, in the beginning stages, after your Day of Visitation, you must visit the source of revelation, which is the Word of God.

Isa 11: And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; KJV

I have had visitations which came from ‘a couple of words’, ‘dreams’, ‘word pictures’, ‘inner visions’, ‘through movies’, ‘arts, sermons, and other ways we would not perceive that could be visited –some profound, some seemingly not at the time.

Each visitation fit so perfectly in my “present puzzle”, it did not occur to me that they were also a part of a much greater-bigger future picture. Every visitation large or small is multifaceted; within it is the “present, past and future because He is all in all. I have learned to write things down. At times the place we are in can be described by the words of Jesus found in John 16:12 where He said I have many things to say but you are not able to grasp them now. This explains why He speaks in “bytes” instead of instead of mega-bytes. He will visit you... “line upon line, precept upon precept”. Though we may have missed the fullness that would have come had we recognized it, we did not ultimately miss the visitation for we cannot be visited by His essence without being affected.

John 16:12 I have still many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them or to take them upon you or to grasp them now. AMP

How do we miss moments of visitation?
Now that we understand that visitations can be subtle and easy to miss. What are some of the other reasons we miss His visitations? Let’s revisit the example of the well. Picture the parallel with our lives. We come into the world as an empty well free from impurities -ready to be filled by the only one who can satisfy the God shaped void within us. However, since we feel “an emptiness” and know not that only He can satisfy it, we seek to fill the well with counterfeits that seem to fulfill us for the moment. With time, the counterfeit begins to evaporate – the sense of emptiness and dissatisfaction returns. In the meantime, there remains a residue of disappointment – a residue of contamination from allowing our vessel to experience visitations by foreigners. Remember, we have established that visitations in the spiritual realm come a little at a time. They come nevertheless, and many times, we do not recognize them. It is the same in the natural the visitations, whether we realize them or not, they affect us. They further dull our sensitivity to the one who made us and each leaves us feeling more robbed and plundered than the last. Acts 28:27-28

Acts 28:27-28 27 For the heart (the understanding, the soul) of this people has grown dull stupid, hardened, and calloused), and their ears are heavy and hard of hearing and they have shut tight their eyes, so that they may not perceive and have knowledge and become acquainted with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their souls and turn [to Me and be converted], that I may heal them. [Isa 6:9, 10.] So let it be understood by you then that [this message of] the salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen [to it]! [Ps 67:2.] AMP

Jesus said that He spoke in parables, because seeing they cannot see, hearing they hear not. While we were yet in the world, our heart waxed gross. What does that mean? These passages as you can see fulfilled Isaiah’s (Esaias) prophecy. We have been robbed and plundered because of many visitations (opinions of man, rejection, abuse, etc) we cannot hear or see clearly –we cannot perceive truth when it comes. Even today, Jesus must speak to some of us in parables. Many times, He brings a hidden message within a message. If we are listening with our natural ears, we will not receive the fullness the visitation. Natural man cannot receive spiritual things. 1 Cor 2:14 AMP. The Good News is that the Word does not return void, it leaves a residue of life that one day we will grasp in the spiritual realm. This brings us to another reason for missing the fullness of the His visitations. Jesus is the word"

Eph 1:23 3 Which is His body, the fullness of Him Who fills all in all [for in that body lives the full measure of Him Who makes everything complete, and Who fills everything everywhere with Himself]. AMP ...James 3:11 KJV Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? KJV ...Prov 4:23 Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life. AMP ...1 Cor 2:14 But the natural, nonspiritual man does not accept or welcome or admit into his heart the gifts and teachings and revelations of the Spirit of God, for they are folly (meaningless nonsense) to him; and he is incapable of knowing them [of progressively recognizing, understanding, and becoming better acquainted with them] because they are spiritually discerned and estimated and appreciated.... Matt 13:13-Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. KJV