“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” (Revelation 3:20)
What door is Jesus knocking at? The theologians say it is the door of your heart, but that still leaves you without full understanding of what He is saying. He is actually saying, “I am knocking at your mind.” Stop thinking wordly. Stop planning your own business. Start putting your plans before God and say, “Lord, this looks good to me, but what do you think?”
God showed me the science we have nowadays. We think it is a great technology but is nothing. He said that there is science and technology so far above our heads that we would think it is magic. I believe God is willing to show us if we just give our minds to Him. We need the mind of Christ. But how do you get the mind of Christ when you have your own mind? The answer is simple: you have to lose your mind! In other words, surrender your way of thinking; surrender your human mind to God. Let the divinity cover your humanity. And God Almighty will break through into the realm of your human thinking.
I remember once I said to the Lord, “Lord, I need a machine that would play both the cassette tapes as well as the reel tapes.” In those days it was the time of the reel tapes but the cassette tapes were coming in. We used to record our messages on the reel tapes and I had hundreds of hours of preachings on those tapes. Actually, I still have them. So I told the Lord I needed a machine that would have a tape on one side and a cassette on the other.
One day I went to the meeting in Los Angeles. After the service I said, “Those of you who need a prayer, come forward and we will pray for you.” A man came and said, “I have a problem. I have a machine at home that I am making and every time I go to touch it my head starts hurting. I just cannot finish the job.” I asked him, “What kind of machine is it?” He responded, “It can play both tapes as well as cassettes. It can also take the recordings from a tape and put them on a cassette.” We laid hands on him and prayed for him. His head stopped hurting, he went home, finished the machine and sold it.
The technology that we have now is from the mind of men. Many of the discoveries that we have these days are here because of men wanting to sell something and, very often, it is for war purposes. I remember one night I went to bed and all night I was being taught how to make a special piece of equipment that could be used for escaping out of an airplane. Whatever spirit was showing me this, he was showing me in details not only the size of the motor but also everything else. He made me to take it apart and put it back together and take it apart and put it back together again. When I woke up, I knew exactly how to draw the plans. I was about to take it to the company that would build it and get it patented. But God said, “Don’t do it. They are going to use it for war.” The invention was not of God. Up to this moment I haven’t seen anybody make it and I keep it secret.
Brethren, our whole mind and soul are in a very low realm and God wants it to be lifted. Allow Him to do that and you will see what He can do in you and through you.
