When by faith we heed and follow the promptings of the Holy Spirit, we render the veil to bring God's Spirit and power from behind the veil into our physical world. This is the process for enabling God's perfecting influence to help shape important outcomes and events in our lives.
For example, in faith the young shepherd boy David acted with God's power to slay the bear and the lion while protecting his father's flocks. This experience led to certain knowledge, that when one acts under God's influence and power, all things are possible. This knowledge led to greater faith and when David later was moved upon by God's Spirit to confront Goliath, he acted with certitude and in faithful obedience to that spirit. By so doing he rendered the veil yet again to enable God's power and divine influence to shape a victorious outcome for Israel.
Similarly, each time we exercise faith to act upon God's Spirit in our lives we achieve at least two outcomes. First, we render the veil to bring God's Spirit and power into our physical world to shape important events and outcomes. Second, increased knowledge is always a by-product of acting faithfully upon revelation. Thus, as the Lords Spirit leads us along, He helps us grow line upon line in the knowledge we need to become redeemed.
Every saint must attain a fullness of knowledge if they are to be redeemed, and the path required to attain this knowledge is the same for saints of each dispensation. It is marked by faithful obedience to God's Spirit. Faith acted upon today is always rewarded by increased knowledge that leads to even greater faith tomorrow. It is a step-by-step process that yields sufficient faith and knowledge necessary to lay hold upon salvation.
Whenever we fail to heed the Lord's voice or to keep His commandments, our faith grows dormant and and the Lord ceases to reveal Himself further to us until we repent, forsake our sins, and covenant with "real intent" to follow Him. Our journey in added faith and knowledge renews only as "real intent" to follow Him renews. As we follow Him with renewed faith our knowledge continues to grow, line upon line, until one day we lay hold upon sufficient faith and knowledge that the veil is parted and we are permited to see His face and to take up our abode with Him.
The path to the Father and to become an eternal member of God's Family is through Jesus alone. As we exercise the faith necessary to see and know Jesus, and to take up our abode with Him, He then finishes our faith, introduces us to the Father, and by so doing becomes the author and finisher of our faith.
Why do we need a Second Comforter to finish our faith? As we take up our abode with Christ it is for one purpose; it is to provide the succor and comfort we will need as we face a critical test of faith. As our Second Comforter, Christ prepares and succors us to help enable us to pass this customized and ultimate test that qualifies us to be made clean every wit and to be introduced by Jesus to the Father.
Each step of faith we take in life is greater than the previous; therefore, every step is as if we are starting all over again. We experience doubts and fears and must find our way through them as we have done previously in order that we may act in faith, render the veil, and gain further light and knowledge.
The path doesn't ever become easier; rather, each step is designed to help us grow further in faith and knowledge. We therefore must remember, as we seek to overcome doubts and fears, that as we act with certitude all Goliaths become mere illusions. Why? Because every time we act in faith and obedience to God's Spirit, we render the veil and bring his Spirit and power into our physical world. As we do so, whatsoever the Lord asks of us becomes possible to us, until we lay hold upon eternal life.
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