WHEN GOD'S RHEMA IS IN DIFFERENT PLACE FROM WHERE GOD'S CHARISMA IS FOR YOU
 

EZEKIEL 3:22
 

[NKJV] — Then the hand of the Lord was upon me there, and He said to me, “Arise, go out into the plain, and there I shall talk with you.” [Ezekiel 3:22]
 

[FBV] — The Lord's power took control of me there, and He told me, “Get up! Go to the valley, and I will talk to you there.” [Ezekiel 3:22 FBV]

This power or Hand of God upon Ezekiel here was grace to empower him to get up and go where he was sent. The power to raise him up. Sometimes, as God is saying to you, "Arise…" His Power or Hand on you to raise you.
 

Nevertheless, the Hand or Power of God was upon him in this place, but He sent him to different place (a Valley) for God to talk with/to him there. This implied that with all the Hand or Power of God on him there, it was still not the place for God to deliver or discuss the message He was about to tell him. There’s a place, and not just a power, for certain divine revelations and messages: For it is not just about the Presence (Hand) of God in a place for the revelation or message to be unveiled, but also about the places and the people who must become (integral) parts of the message or revelation.
 

Therefore the man of God was heavily under the Hand or Power of God, but God sent him into “the” valley or plain, where God will continue talking with him. The communication or revelation of God was moving or shifting places and positions faster than the presence and power of God that was with the man of God. So the man of God must be dynamic and build a movement, not a monument, to capture the journeys and walking with God. It is called “Walking with God” and not just “Standing with God;” and you need to keep “Walking with God” for God to keep “Talking with you.”
 

Many people among us usually build monuments or memorials to religiously get stuck to the past places where they met and felt the great Hand or Power of God upon them. They will even build temple there and worship God there forever, and turn there into their religious pilgrimage site.
 

However, I want you to outgrow getting stuck in same places you encountered miracles, power or presence of God and angels; and move on to seeking God and not just feeling God, and to looking “At Him” and not just looking “for Him.”
 

Listen to this:

His power, His angels, His miracles, etc., could still be there or remain there, but He Himself is no more there for you or He has moved on from there to another place. Yes, God is omnipresent, meaning He is everywhere at the same time. However, there’s is something called, “He is not there for you” or “He is not here for you” even when you can still see and feel His Power, Grace, Angels, Miracles etc., there.
 

This differentiates between “God is here with Me” and “God is here for Me.” Even when God is here with you, God may not be here for you: That was what Ezekiel understood in the top Bible Verse above, when the Hand of God or Power of God was “here with the man of God” but the fellowship, revelation or communication of God talking or chatting with the man of God was waiting for the man of God outside there but in the valley or plain, wanting the man of God to humbly descend or come down from that height where he presently was. To condescend to lower place where God will continue talking with him and showing him more things and revelations.
 

The name, “Immanuel” means “God with us;” but that does not translate into “God for us.” As we mature, we will understand better the difference between “God is here with us” and “God is here for us.”
 

But let’s share few more examples of men and women that somehow felt God is here/there with them, but at that moment God was not there for them though they felt and heard Him.
 

The women who sought for the Lord’s Body at His grave met angels and glory there, and observed signs and wonders of the Lord there; but the Lord was not there (for them). The angels asked them, “Why are you looking for the living among the dead: He is not here, but He’s risen from the dead and has gone ahead of you to Galilee” (Luke 24). Will you see such miracles, signs and wonders, including seeing angels for the first time there, and will not like to return to that church or place? And yet the angels told those women that the Lord is not here, even though the angels were relaxed there. And in another occasion, Mary Magdalene still saw the Lord there or in the same place where angels told the women that the Lord is not here. Yes, the Lord was there with her, but not there for her: therefore, when she wanted to touch Him there, the Lord refused her, saying to her, “Do not touch Me, for I have not ascended to My Father: But go to My Disciples, tell them I...”
 

Well there were women who knew how to still convert “The Lord here with me” into “The Lord here for me;” because those women knew how to take even the advantage of just seeing or feeling Him to grab His attention towards them. Examples, the woman with the issue of blood knew the Lord was passing by there, not for her but for some others; and yet she converted that moment for her. Another woman was the Canaanite woman that saw and knew the Lord Jesus in another country called Syria; and though He was not there for her, and He was not even sent but for the lost sheep of the house of Israel, yet she had Him heal her daughter, delivering her daughter from demons possessing her daughter. And lastly, the prostitute woman who repented, and came with Alabaster Box of Oil to grab her forgiveness from the Lord who was not even there (in another man’s house) for her.
 

Back to evidences of the LORD’s power, grace, angels, miracles, glory, etc., being and felt in a place by a man/woman, and yet the LORD is not there/here for him/her:
 

Elijah was very good at discerning this mode of walking with God, and perhaps that was one of the reason God was so impressed with Elijah and God had to take Elijah long after He took Enoch. Learning from Elijah: While he was by the Mountain of Horeb, the Lord spoke to him to climb up the Mountain and wait for Him up there. (Unlike how He spoke to Ezekiel in the top bible verse above, to go out and down to the valley, Elijah was instructed to climb up the hill). On the hill, the Lord was to pass by him, but instead the power of God passed by in form of great wind, great fire and great earthquake or shakings that shook the rock where he stood; but the Lord was not in any of His Power or Miracles that was available there on the Mountain where Elijah was asked to wait for Him.
 

Then a still small voice spoke to Elijah, and suddenly, Elijah understood that a better way for waiting for the Lord is seeking the Lord. Instead of continuing waiting for the LORD, he would rather continuing seeking the LORD. Waiting for the Lord means waiting where He ask you to wait for Him until He comes to you. While seeking the Lord means searching and reaching at the Lord where He is currently available for you, leaving your place to go to where next He is available and reachable for you to keep walking with God and not just waiting for God.
 

Elijah just knew when to change place and where to go next to keep walking with God. See what happened the day he was to be taken: God sent him to Gilgal, and he told Elisha to wait for him: But even Elisha already knew that “Walking with him” is better than “Waiting for him:” and Elisha insisted he must go or walk with him rather than waiting for him. Imagine if Elisha had waited, he would have died still waiting for Elijah to come back to him as he promised.
 

So while Elijah had the wisdom of walking with God, Elisha had the wisdom of walking with Elijah; rather than just waiting for Him or him. Sent to go to Gilgal, but on getting there the LORD did not seem to show up there but just resend him to Jericho, and kept resending him after what may have appeared as disappointments to the earlier scheduled rendezvous  or meeting. Imagine someone important told you to travel to another state or province, and there he will have time for you. You traveled there as he told you, but he sent to tell you again to travel again because he moved to another state or province. And yet you traveled again there to meet him; and there again you saw signs of his convoys or evidence that he had been there, but sent that you should still cross one great river and meet him the other side etc. Some people may get offended or disappointed and stop following or seeking for that very busy man who seem not to be remembering his own scheduled appointment with them. But Elijah kept following and moving, constantly walking with God and moving with Him to wherever He led, without getting discouraged. Therefore, the LORD God found in Elijah another man like Enoch who walked with God, and was not, because God took him.
 

Can you walk with God? If you were the one God told to go down into the valley and there He will talk with you, will you not wonder why you have to go down that far for Him to talk with you when He’s obviously talking and could have just simplified things by just telling you here what He wants to talk to you about without having to travel that distance and back just to hear what He has to say? What if after going that far, He changes the venue or reassign you to another place without apologies for changing the earlier announcement?
 

Abraham’s own was even difficult because he was told by God to leave his father’s people and father’s land that he was supposed to inherit as the firstborn son of his father, forfeiting his father’s property and land that should be his, to go to where God will show him. And God did not even tell him the place or direction, whether east, west, north or south; and Abraham by faith obeyed without knowing where he was going or which direction, but trusting the LORD will show him. Perhaps if the LORD had told him straight up he should go to Canaan land, Abraham would not have to spend much following longer routes or other directions but to follow the shorter route to Canaan. But God did not disclose where he was to go, and Abraham just kept traveling until one day God showed up and told him this was the place. In another occasion, God told him the place he was to go and sacrifice his only son, Isaac, and he traveled three days journey to that place: but there God changed the instruction, that he should not go ahead again with the earlier command of sacrificing his only son as offering to God.
 

I felt the Disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ did not go where He sent them to go and meet Him after His resurrection: For He sent them to meet Him at Galilee; but they remained in Jerusalem behind closed and locked door for fear of the Jews and for unbelief because they did not believe those who saw the LORD Jesus Christ was risen from the dead and spoke to them to bring His message to them. So because they did not believe or obey to go meet with the LORD at where He was to talk to them, and the Lord Jesus Christ did not want to ignore them and move on without them, He decided to come to them and appeared to them inside the locked room; but He rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, making Him to appear in Jerusalem to them after His resurrection.
 

But here is one apostle who was one of the best apostles at going where the LORD sent him and walking with Him: as soon as he was converted into Christianity by the fear of God upon him that made him trembling: He began asking the Lord, “What do you want me to do?” He did not began asking for what the Lord will do for him; rather he began asking what he will do for the Lord. Who was that Christian? Well, the Lord Jesus first told him where to “Go” before the Lord Jesus told him what to “Do.” If you first learns how to “go” wherever the Lord sends you, you will surely know how to do whatever the Lord tells you.
 

As it is written,

And trembling and astonished, he said, Lord, what will You have me to do? And the Lord said to him, Arise and go into the city, and you shall be told what you must do. -- [Acts 9:6 MKJV]