Four Living Creatures of Revelation

Revelation 4:6-8 ESV

⁶ and before the throne there was as it were a sea of glass, like crystal.
And around the throne, on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind: ⁷ the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight. ⁸ And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say,

                                                 “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,
                                                          who was and is and is to come!”

The four living creatures are the four sides of spiritual maturity.

The face of " a lion " that’s authority. I have spiritual authority when I really know who I am.

The foundation of my life is The Rock, The Lord Jesus Christ. The realm of spiritual authority is a

Kingdom realm. Where The Spirit of The Lord is Lord there is authority and liberty. (2 Cor 3:17)

The face of "an ox ". My life is submitted sacrificially to the Lord. (Mat 11:29)

Given to the Lord. Present yourselves as a living sacrifice. (Rom 12:1-2)

I am yoked with The Lord ever waiting, sensitive and responsive to the moving of His Spirit 

The face of " a man ". I am a new creature in Christ Jesus (2Cor 5:17)

I am in a place of communion and fellowship with Him..The Lord can share his heart with me.

I can relate and understand what is being imparted in the Spirit

The face of " an eagle " This speaks of Spirituality.  I have been lifted brought up into that place with Him We shall mount up with wings (Isaiah 40:31). We have the divine capacity to ascend into the realm of the spirit. They that wait upon the lord... shall mount up with wings as eagles. I can move in the spirit. In Him we live and move (Acts 17:28) Spiritually...thou hearest the wind and knows the sound (John 3:8) as I become sensitive to the manifest presence of the Lord and respond to that, then I am moving in harmony with Gods eternal purpose.

He has made us partakers of a divine nature. (2 Peter 1:4)

That the character of Christ might be formed in us (Gal 4:19)

The four living creatures are a picture of the New Testament Overcomer.

Revelation 3:20-22 KJV

²⁰ 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.
²¹ To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
²² He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

Carry My Soul - Phil Wickham

 
I want to hear You say well done
I want to be welcomed in
I want to feel Your love like sunshine
On my resurrected skin
I want to hear the music play
I want to hear the trumpets sound
I want to hear You call my name
And watch my feet lift off the ground
I will run
Oh and I won't quit
Chasing Your heart
Just like David did
I'll coming running
Through the gates
Looking to Your face
Oh I can hardly wait
Until You carry my soul
Carry my soul away
When everything is said and done
And death has met its end
I want to hear You call me son
Be counted as a faithful friend
I want to see You rise like fire
I want to see the scars that bled
Oh won't you take me higher
The place where angels fear to tread
And I will run
Lord and I won't quit
Chasing Your heart
Just like David did
I'll coming running
Through the gates
Looking to Your face
Oh I can hardly wait
Until You carry my soul
Carry my soul away
And I will keep my lamplight
Burning in the night
I'll be waiting here for You
Watching for all Your signs
If I may be so bold to ask You
Would You lend Your ear to me
Oh Lord come quickly
And I will run
Lord and I won't quit
Chasing Your heart
Just like David did
And I'll coming running
Through the gates
Looking to Your face
Oh I can hardly wait
Until You carry my soul
Carry my soul away
Until You carry my soul
Carry my soul away

Love His Appearing

Proverbs 8:34-35

34 Blessed is the man that hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

35 For whoever finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor of the LORD.

2 Timothy 4:8

From now on there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, 

shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but to all them also that love his appearing.

If anyone hears my voice, that voice of the Lord is a still small voice

We have to become quiet. The earthly becomes quiet

Our soul becomes quiet. Our spirit becomes active.

We become sensitized with the heavenly and we begin to move and flow in it.

Our heart is lifted in vision, hope and expectancy.

There is an impartation of spiritual substance.

Then when we pray it is with a heavenly anointing

Those that we pray for are lifted and the earthly loses it pull.

There is an impartation of the heavenly.

Our innermost being is reoriented toward that eternal reality.

We wait on the Lord actively worshipfully waiting in anticipation

of the Lord appearing…He is coming for those who love his appearing.

Overcome - New Life Worship

Seated above, enthroned in the Father's love
Destined to die, poured out for all mankind
God's only Son, perfect and spotless one
He never sinned but suffered as if He did

All authority
Every victory is Yours
All authority
Every victory is Yours

Savior, worthy of honor and glory
Worthy of all our praise, You overcame
Jesus, awesome in power forever
Awesome and great is Your name, You overcame

Power in hand speaking the Father's plan
You're sending us out, light in this broken land

We will overcome by the blood of the Lamb
And the word of our testimony, everyone overcome

Tree of Life

Our spirit is recreated through a “new birth” in which these spiritual senses are restored and begin to develop.  It is very important that we spend quality time “waiting upon the Lord” in order to develop our ability to “sense” (spirit), or “feel” (soul) His presence, and “hear” His voice, deep within us.

These spiritual senses are further developed and matured through our obedience to a process of “testing,” which is designed to draw us up into a higher realm of spiritual awareness, understanding, and experience.

As the Lord tested Adam by placing the tree of “life” and the tree of the “knowledge” of good and evil in the “midst” of the garden, we also must face a process in which we are tested to determine the outworking of the Lord's purpose for us.  Therefore, these two “trees” are placed in the pattern of each of our lives.  The tree of life (spirit) represents our utter dependence upon, and trust in, the outworking of His purpose and provision for us.  The tree of the knowledge of good and evil (soul) represents our desire to be independent and choose for ourselves what is right or wrong.

Therefore, we must make a choice concerning these opposite pulls upon our being.  We can choose to satisfy our soulish, sensual desires, as expressed in the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; or we can choose the higher realm of spirituality, as expressed in the tree of life (over-comer).