Emma Stark: Promoted to Greater Dependence on God (Philippians 2:5-8)
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 2021-07-14

Emma Stark: Promoted to Greater Dependence on God (Philippians 2:5-8)
Emma speaks on the Power Hour broadcast on June 3, 2021. Quotes: “And yet glory to glory, is that sense of going from Christ-like to more Christ-like to more Christ-like. And actually, as I go from glory to glory, I go from where I am to more child-like. I go from glory to glory, to more not in control. I go from glory to glory where I am more yielded, where I acknowledge I know less. And sometimes actually the glory to glory is about an increased understanding of my weakness, of my dependency, of my need to not know all the answers, and that actually, that is promotion.”

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I think we have a real unfortunate understanding of what glory to glory means. We interpret that scripture, "I go from one degree of glory to another” (2 Corinthians 3:18), almost in a worldly way,
that you would think about victory on a battlefield, i.e., the glory of victory, the glory of advancement, the glory of overcoming an enemy.

And that promotion in the kingdom is actually upside down. I can go from feeling like I know the plan of God for my life, get promoted by God, into a place where I am MORE dependent [on God]. I can go from feeling like “I know,” to feeling like “I don't know,” and THAT is actually glory. We have lost that thought, i.e., “I will only move if I can pick up greater.”

Well what about those seven humiliations of Jesus listed in Philippians 2. You did not consider equality with God, something to be grasped, but took on the nature of a servant and became humble, you know, even to death, death on the cross. And that list in Philippians of the humiliations of Jesus, which were glory, that he became less. You and I are not prepared to become less. We hate inexperience. We never rejoice in inexperience. And yet, if I am promoted by God into a new level, I will hit a realm that I have no previous experience of.

And hitting inexperience should be a regular habit for the Christian, where I hit the zone where I do not know what to do. I have to say, that I think we have lost the joy of dependency. We have lost the joy of “not knowing.” We have lost the sheer thrill and excitement of God being the God of answers. When was the last time you were really excited that God knew and you did not? When you say there's so much joy in my undoing, there's so much joy that I have no idea, there's so much joy that I don't know how the miracle will come, there's so much joy that I don't know where the breakthrough is coming, there's joy because I don't know how I'm going to handle this, there's joy because I don't quite know where to go, there's joy because I don't quite know what to do, there is joy because in this moment I am so dependent on you and my child like dependency on you is the thrill of my life.

That's the adventure. And we have zero idea how to partner child-like dependency with joy. And as I said, we are oversophisticated I must know. Oh God, make us joyful in inexperience, make me joyful in not knowing, God you build your church. 

Why are we on this subject today? Because so much is changing, so much is in transformation, so much is in flux. And the great danger that the Western church has is that we will accidentally miss the reset because we lack child likeness. We will accidentally miss what God has done to shake us by wanting to know the plan and the strategy. 

And God says, "come back to not knowing and the joy of it." In that place, Satan has no part in you because peace holds you - not chaos. Whether that is stress, or worry, or anxiety or uncertainty, if
if Satan can put chaos as a throne inside you, you have no capacity to put your faith forward to strategize and battle plan for the future.

The need to dethrone chaos is so vital because it's not just a reclamation of your today, it's a  reclamation of your ability to plan and strategize for your future as well.
Do we actually believe that we can be the people of nothing damaged?
Do you?
Do you believe that you can be the person of nothing broken?
Do you believe that you can be the person of nothing missing?
Do you believe that?
Because when Jesus says my peace, I give you, he is saying, himself, “I believe that you can be so whole, nothing is broken, nothing is damaged, nothing is missing.” God, We step into the miracle waters, we step out of flesh, and we step out of just the naturalness of the world, and we step into the spirit realm right now, where all things are possible.