If a fisherman (that has a boat) doesn’t catch fish, he is in trouble because that is his livelihood. Isn’t it interesting that he needs to wash his nets from its saltiness that came from the ocean water, otherwise his nets lose their strength to hold the magnitude of the catch. God wants clean nets that will contain His Glory. Just like the fisherman, when they clean their nets, they can become despondent and discouraged because it can mean that they have no idea when their next catch will be! But when Jesus shows up filled with Glory, everything changes.
After Jesus speaks from his boat He tells Peter to launch into the deep, and let down his nets for a harvest of abundance. Simon answered, “We have fished all night and caught nothing.” – he answered from a natural standpoint because he physically didn’t see the fish in his nets. But then he says, “But at your word, we will let down the nets.” Saying the ‘power of your creativity’ is in calling the Glory of the harvest which manifests the open door and the turn around. Whenever Jesus showed up He turned the impossible and made it possible.Peter believed in the authority of Jesus’s words to call the fish into the nets!
The anointing that was/is on Jesus was not just to heal and deliver but to teach us in the same manner – Genesis 1:28 says, “Blessed to be fruitful, multiply, replenish and have dominion! Stepping into the anointing opens the doors to the Glory world [the realms of God].”
Who caught the fish? Was it the nets? Or was it the boats? No, it was the words of Jesus! Peter believed and acted on those words and cast the nets out. They began to break because of the weightiness with the fish IN them, he called the others who were there with their boats to come help him, and they filled their boats to the point of sinking! God had a breakthrough planned but Peter had to respond to His words – he has to hear the words and make the decision to act upon those words and bring the breakthrough to pass.
Peter’s faith was tested, just like ours gets tested. Peter calls it precious faith. 1 Peter 1:7-8 says, “These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world. You love him even though you have never seen him. Though you do not see him now, you trust him; and you rejoice with a glorious, inexpressible joy.”
In 1 Peter 1:25 it says, “But the word of the Lord remains forever.” And that word is the Good News that was preached to you.”
And in 1 Peter 1:13 he tells us, “So prepare your minds for action and exercise self-control. Put all your hope in the gracious salvation that will come to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world.”
No wonder he talks about the Glory 16 times in his epistle, because he had the experience on the mountain of prayer. Whatever Jesus did in prayer, He did as an example for us to step up and step over, and step into the Glory of prayer! Your words in the Spirit and the believing in your heart will take you out of darkness into the light. 1 Corinthians 4:6-8, “For God, who said, “Let there be light in the darkness,” has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ. We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves. We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair.”Jesus called those things that do not exist in the natural into the natural world because He has the revelation that only abundance and breakthrough exists in the God-world, which is the Spirit-world – the GLORY-WORLD. Lack does not exist in His realm of Glory!
