Hey, Kye.
I love your enthusiasm, and I would never want to be one to dampen it. That said, I do feel the need to offer a word of balance.
Kye, revelations from God are not always cheery. In fact, the book of Revelation is not the least bit cheery for many of the people it describes.
For me, my revelations from God normally fall into one of the three following categories.
1. God reveals things in me which are not right and need to be corrected.
I basically receive this type of revelation daily, and I am "happy" that I do. The reason why I put the word "happy" in quotes is best described here.
Heb 12:5
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
Heb 12:6
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Heb 12:7
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
Heb 12:8
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Heb 12:9
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected
us, and we gave
them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
Heb 12:10
For they verily for a few days chastened
us after their own pleasure; but he for
our profit, that
we might be partakers of his holiness.
Heb 12:11
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
God chastens and scourges every son he loves and receives, and I must be one of his favorites because I have been put over his knee many times in my Christian walk. No chastening seems joyous (or "happy") at the moment of chastening, but if we are exercised thereby, or if we genuinely repent when God chastens us, then the end result is the peaceable fruit of righteousness. In other words, we can truly walk in peace with God because we are behaving ourselves in a right manner before him. For me, this is a major form of revelation that I get from God.
2. God reveals to me how lost and/or hurting people are that I might try to reach them with the gospel message.
In other words, his revelations do not simply pertain to me, but to others as well.
3. God reveals to me what Christ has truly purchased for me because without such a revelation I can neither walk rightly before God myself nor truly help others.
This type of revelation seems more in line with the purpose of your opening post. Along this line, I have prayed the following prayers of Paul for myself many times.
Eph 1:15
Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
Eph 1:16
Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
Eph 1:17
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
Eph 1:18
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
Eph 1:19
And what
is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
Eph 1:20
Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set
him at his own right hand in the heavenly
places,
Eph 1:21
Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
Eph 1:22
And hath put all
things under his feet, and gave him
to be the head over all
things to the church,
Eph 1:23
Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Eph 3:14
For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Eph 3:15
Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
Eph 3:16
That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
Eph 3:17
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
Eph 3:18
May be able to comprehend with all saints what
is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
Eph 3:19
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
As Christians, we need a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of God so that the eyes of our understanding may be enlightened to the hope of our calling, to our inheritance in Christ, and to the exceeding greatness of his power towards us which is directly related to the power God manifested when he raised Christ from the dead while seating him at his right hand. We also need a revelation of the fact that God has similarly raised us up to sit in heavenly places in Christ (Eph. 2:6) if we are ever going to walk in the fulness of what Christ has purchased for us.
We also need Divine revelation to comprehend what is the breadth, length, depth, and height of Christ's love for us, which passes knowledge, or which cannot be fully understood apart from Divine revelation, so that we might be filled with all the fulness of God.
My word of encouragement for you today would be to begin to pray these prayers for yourself because God will give such revelations to those who simply ask for it.
Have a blessed day.
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