The Path (Fire on the Mountain Series) by Rick Joyner Page A

Word that all who seek, find, and all who ask, receive. A more accurate translation would be that all who keep seeking find, and all who keep asking receive. The quest for these treasures of the knowledge of His ways is one of the greatest adventures you can know in this life, to a large degree because He adds to it the experience of the truth.”
“If He wants all to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth, and for all of us to know Him, why does He make it so hard?” the younger Mary asked.
“Only those who care enough to continue the pursuit of these treasures will find them. Those who care that much for them will likely be careful enough to handle them rightly. It is like any earthly fortune. Those who do not have the experience of building a fortune will not have the wisdom to keep it. Those who do not have the experience of searching out His treasures of wisdom and knowledge will not care enough to keep them or live them. Even so, the greatest treasure of all will be the fellowship we have with Him when He becomes our Teacher.”
“When you were spending those years of research and study you spoke of, did you only read or listen to messages that you felt He had put in your hand?” the older Mary asked.
“No. I read and studied many things. I put the highest priority on any book or material I felt that He had specifically put in my hands, but only a small percentage of what I studied would I put in the category of knowing that it had been given to me directly by the Lord. They would often get me going on a trail, but I followed the trail with my own pursuit and research,” I answered.
“Again, He is called ‘the Helper’ who was sent to be our Guide, not ‘the Doer.’ Once I got on a trail I would feel His guidance if I started to drift from it, and He would correct me and help me get back on the right track. I also learned that as Jesus said of Himself, He is gentle and humble of heart. He is gentle in the way He guides us. For this reason, we must stay sensitive to recognize His guidance and even His correction. He may use dramatic ways to get our attention as we learned yesterday with the lion, but that tends to be the exception, not the rule.
“I was taught when I was a new believer that He gave us the desires of our hearts. The things we desired in our innermost being were the things He was calling us to do. When I did not have a specific leading to study something or a book or message that I felt He had given to me, I followed my heart in my studies. It seemed to always pay off.”
“Were there others like this that you had fellowship with?” one of those I did not know well asked.
“What is your name?” I inquired of the elderly lady.
“My name is Judy.”
“Judy, that is a good question. There were a few that I had fellowship with around these things. They were rare but they were rich in substance. I thought some of our conversations were as revelatory as many books I had read. Sometimes I would ask the Lord a number of questions before meeting with these friends, and in our meeting, my questions would get answered, sometimes even in sequence. They may not even know the Lord was using them this way, but that made it even better. As close as we were drawn to one another, we were being drawn even closer to the Lord. I knew that He was my Teacher.
“However, just to meet someone with the same zeal for understanding was like finding an even greater treasure. The fellowship we had around these things was my first real taste of koinonia .”
“Can you tell us a little more about yourself?” Judy asked.
“I think you deserve to know more about me since you have me here for at least a while,” I began. “I had been an agnostic before coming to know that God was real. From the time I learned to read, I had a hunger to read everything I could get my hands on. I developed a love for knowledge. I wanted to know about everything, and had many interests, but I began to think that the greatest