How can we be prepared for sonship?
What types of preparation do we need?
Who provides that preparation?
Where does that preparation take place?
Intimacy with the Father is the best preparation for sonship as you can’t be a son without a father.
The Father is calling His children to arise as sons and take our places where we are seated in the heavenly realms.
The Joshua Generation are forerunners of a heavenly royal priesthood according to the order of Melchizedek. Also on earth we are oracles and legislators aligning heaven and earth as gateways of heaven into the earth.
It is relationship with the Father that gives us identity, position and authority; a mandate so we can be fruitful, multiply, fill, subdue and rule. To fulfil our sonship mandate we need to be at rest; therefore, not striving by our own DIY self-effort according to the wrong path.
For heaven to flow through us as a gateway into the earth we need to be seated in rest, yoked to Jesus. Being joined to the Lord and one spirit is so vital as it demonstrates our trust in His provision, protection and direction for our lives.
Being at rest is ceasing to follow the DIY tree path of independence, self-effort and dead works by being positioned in God’s rest within the provision of the tree of life .
Being at rest enables God to trust us to operate in kingdom authority. Being at rest is knowing who we are as children of God by personal experience. Engaging God ourselves brings us to rest in our soul.
Matt 11:29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Finding rest for our souls is the key to sonship. If our souls are living in lost identity or with damage and fragmentation, then it is difficult to live out of the truth that rest reveals.
The rest of sonship has always been God’s plan. 2 Tim 1:3 I love the constant thought of you; I am aware of our union in Christ 24/7.
Prayer is such a permanent thing when we discover God’s grace-echo in our worship! Our conscience celebrates our pre-creation innocence before God!
We celebrate an innocence that pre-dates Adam’s fall! We have allowed an illegitimate sin consciousness to prevail in our theologies and worship! The prodigal son’s father had no reference to, or remembrance of past sins; imagine how that would spoil the party!
2 Tim 1:9 He rescued the integrity of our original design and revealed that we have always been his own from the beginning, even before time was. This has nothing to do with anything we did to qualify or disqualify ourselves. We are not talking religious good works or karma here. Jesus unveils grace to be the eternal intent of God!
Grace celebrates our pre-creation innocence and now declares our redeemed union with God in Christ Jesus. Paul speaks of God’s mind made up about us, before the ages, which is a concept in which eternity is divided up into various periods, the shorter of which are comprehended in the longer; this was before calendar time existed, before the creation of the galaxies and constellations [Kairos is a due, or specific moment of time.]
What happened to us in Christ is according to God’s eternal purpose, which he has shown in every prophetic pointer and shadow; In the Hebrew tradition the showbread pointed to the true bread from heaven, the authentic word that proceeded from the mouth of God – Jesus, the incarnate word – sustaining the life of our design.
Titus 1:2 This is the life of the ages that was anticipated for generations; the life of our original design announced by the infallible resolve of God before time or space existed. Mankind’s union with God is the original thought that inspired creation.
There exists a greater dimension to eternity than what we are capable of defining within the confines of space and time! God’s faith anticipated the exact moment of our redeemed union with him for all eternity! Our heavenly Father has not left anything to chance. He has built reconciliation and restoration within the fabric of His being and upon the foundation stone of creation. Our redeemed innocence is His intention from the beginning:
“If your theology doesn’t lead you to love people more, you should question your theology.” The problem is when we do not know by experience the truth of God’s love for all His children. We have lost our memory and therefore our identity so our soul is broken and fragmented.
Issues with our soul can stop us from maturing in our sonship because the fragmentation and brokenness creates in us wrong motivations and intents. Soul issues can be unmet needs, unhealed hurts, unresolved issues.
Those soul issues can keep us from rest and wholeness and from living in the dual realms of heaven and earth.
They keep us tethered to our soul and this earth realm. We need those soul ties separated so we can be reintegrated and at rest: spirit, soul and body. Before our soul and spirit can be separated and reintegrated, we need our fragmented soul integrated and whole. We need to see all walls, barriers and partitions come down. We need the love of God to penetrate our souls and cast out all fear.
We are a 3 part being: Spirit, Soul and Body Made in the image and likeness of Father, Son and Spirit. We may have lost the true knowledge of our identity as that comes from knowing who we are in God. We may have become fragmented through the sin (lost distorted image). Man was created for intimate relationship with God.
Originally man was not self-conscious apart from relationship with God. Our identity, image, esteem, value, worth, security, protection, provision all flowed from the vast sum of God’s amazing thoughts about us through the heart-to-heart cardiognosis connection.
When Adam chose independence and chose to be spiritually separated, he lost identity through spiritual death. Mankind has since that point tried to rediscover its identity from the world around us. Man became self-conscious and world conscious through independence. Our efforts attained through self-knowledge, and our own understanding in independence from God (the Truth), has caused damage to ourselves and each other because of selfishness and self-centeredness.
Whenever we seek to use our own knowledge as opposed to God’s we are falling deeper into the lostness of independence by leaning to our own understanding which is always going to be less than the truth – only found in relationship with God Himself.
We are trading into the original deception of knowledge apart from God. Whenever we use a substitute instead of God’s provision – it is falsely trading. Whenever the motives of our heart are selfish – it is falsely trading. Losing our rest and trading for it creates self-identity which brings more hurt, pain, damage, fear etc.
Man was created and mandated to survive to be fruitful, multiply etc. We develop survival mechanisms to enable us to live in the world we were supposed to subdue and rule. Coping and defense mechanisms. Skins, layers, masks, behavioral patterns.
We try to get back what we lost through our own self-effort works Self-importance, Self-promotion, Self-control Self-respect, Self-esteem, Self-worth, Self-image, Self-reliance, Self-sufficiency, Self-belief, Self-expression Self-denial, Self-righteousness, Self-help, Self-improvement Self-gratification, Self-indulgence Masking our true God-created self.
How did we get fragments, skins, layers, masks, behavior patterns? Nature – genetic and epigenetic programming in our DNA. Nurture – environmental programming in our relationship. Trauma – experiential programming Nature, our seed line – DNA genetic record Reptilian seed – Cain Nephilim seed – angelic/human hybrid Righteous seed – Noah Our blood line – records of family sin, behaviors, spirits – iniquity. Nurture – environmental programming is the record of our upbringing. Parental failure – to provide Acceptance, Affection, Affirmation, Approval – creates insecurity Rejection – by the tribes of Family, School, Friends, Church – creates insecurity. This leaves the soil of heart/soul to become hard, crushed and damaged. Stony, with negative words, curses, vows, agreements, believing lies. Weedy, with fears, worries and anxieties. All compounded by familial and familiar spirits that attach to us. Trauma – the record of our experiences. Abuse – physical, sexual, emotional, physiological, verbal.
Incidents and accidents – emotional and physical Grief and loss, death, divorce, moving home, fear-inducing incidents. All create layers of protection, coping and defense mechanisms. Heb 4:12 talks about dividing, separating, judging – 3 layers Soul and Spirit -Behaviors Thoughts and Intentions – Motives Bone and Marrow – Root or source Results in transgression, the sin and iniquity, keeping us lost.
There are different levels of transformation. Most inner healing and deliverance deals with the behavioral level.
To engage in the higher, in the realms of the kingdom, we also need to go to a deeper level of transformation in our souls. If you dealt with the surface level – the skins of behaviour (coping and defence mechanism) that will get you as far as the kingdom of God. If you want to engage in kingship you need to go deeper and deal with the thoughts, motives and intentions of the heart and the trading. There is a deeper level still.
The Order of Melchizedek has no earthly genealogy; no longer of Adam’s line. If we want to come into true sonship, we need genetic transformation. We can use the power of the body and blood of Jesus through communion to enable genetic transformation to restore our true sonship identity. The wonderful reality is that wholeness is not only possible but is our destiny so that we can live in the rest of love, joy and peace. It was always God’s desire that all His children would be included in the perichoresis, innocent relationship of Father, Son and Spirit, and He had a plan to ensure this would happen.
Eph 1:4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love 5 He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, His plan was in place before creation.
Eph 1:4 He associated us in Christ before the fall of the world! Jesus is God’s mind made up about us! He always knew in his love that he would present us again face-to-face before him in blameless innocence. 5 He is the architect of our design; his heart dream realized our coming of age in Christ.
1 Thes 5:23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ. True wholeness is spirit, soul and body in relationship.
1 Thes 5:23 There, away from any effort of your own, discover how the God of perfect peace, who fused you skillfully into oneness – just like a master craftsman would dovetail a carpentry joint – has personally perfected and sanctified the entire harmony of your being without your help!
1 Thes 5:23 He has restored the detailed default settings. You were re-booted to fully participate in the life of your design, in your spirit, soul and body in blameless innocence in the immediate presence of our Lord Jesus Christ.
It is not in my “I-used-to-be-ness” or “I’m-trying-to-become-ness”, but in my “I-am-ness!” that true rest is experienced. All this comes from His immediate presence in me and around me, as I am in Him and He is in me Jesus, who knows what it is like to be fully human as the son of man, fully identified with our brokenness when He cried “My God why have you forsaken me?”
Jesus came to represent fallen Adam, not sinless Adam, therefore fully represents our lost identity. Hebrews 2:14-15 Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives.
Being one with the children of God presupposes the fact that he lived and died in a body exactly like theirs; being as fully human as we are, he is qualified to remove the dominion of death that was introduced as a result of Adam’s fall. 15 As a fellow human, he re-defined death and delivered them from the lifelong dread of death. Hebrews 4:15-16
For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:15
As High Priest he fully identifies with us in the context of our frail human lives. Having subjected it to close scrutiny, he proved that the human frame was master over sin. His sympathy with us is not to be seen as excusing weaknesses which are the result of a faulty design, but rather as a trophy to humanity. (He is not an example for us but of us.) Son, the goal is wholeness: restoration of all that has been lost, broken, fragmented, fractured; and all that has been used to protect yourselves can be removed. The coping mechanisms and defence mechanisms that have been employed by the subconscious mind can be safely removed in My presence. In My presence there is no fear; in My presence there is fullness of joy and a peace beyond all earthly understanding.
1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.
John 14:27 Peace be with you! I give you my own peace – this is not the kind the world gives – this is peace in the midst of troubled times; therefore, you have nothing to fear! Let not your hearts be timid.
John 14:21 Whoever resonates and treasures the completeness of my prophetic purpose cannot but fall in love with me and also find themselves to be fully participating in my Father’s love and I will love this one and make myself distinctly known and real to each one individually. In this embrace of inseparable union, love rules! This spells inseparable, intimate oneness!
Note that it is not our knowing that positions Jesus in the Father or us in them! Our knowing simply awakens us to the reality of our redeemed union! Gold does not become gold when it is discovered but it certainly becomes currency!
1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. The barriers, walls and separation of our souls through fear including parts and altars can only be reintegrated through the presence of love, joy and peace.
Fear cannot co-exist in this love realm. The perfect love union that we are talking about expels fear. Fear holds on to an expectation of crisis and judgment [which brings separation] and interprets it as due punishment [a form of karma!] It echoes torment and only registers in someone who does not realize the completeness of their love union [with the Father, Son and Spirit and with one another.] Will we choose to allow the presence of the Lord to remove the barriers, the defence and coping mechanisms? We are in Him and He is in us. This is a safe place for all brokenness and fragmentation to be healed and restored and for our soul to be reintegrated and become whole.
Psalm 139: Search me, O God, and know my heart, try me (put me on trial) and show me my anxious thoughts (the way of thinking that the enemy uses). Show me if there is any wicked (idolatrous), iniquitous way in me. We really need to know who we are, who God created us to be, so we can be realigned and conformed to that image. Trauma is a major problem. It can set up instant neural pathways to memories that continue to negatively influence us. Trauma can create dissociated pathways and cause fragmentation. Sometimes that can cause stuck parts where we are emotionally undeveloped or immature in an area. Even our cells can contain the record of trauma. Trauma usually creates fear and the enemy comes in and occupies that place in us. We need trauma released Father, I thank you for your presence around me and in me I thank you for this safe place within your love, joy and peace I choose to open my heart up to You. Invite You into my soul Reveal my blind self to me; show me the hidden motives of my heart. Show me how I look compared to your image of me. Wash me and cleanse me with your living word: the love, joy, peace and comfort of your immediate presence.In the light of your truth within my soul, I ask you to search me I present myself to you, Jesus, my High Priest, as a living sacrifice I ask you to skin me; remove all barriers and walls that protect and imprison me.
Remove all my layers of self-righteous protection. Remove all the masks that I hide behind. Remove all my defensive behavior patterns. Remove all my coping mechanisms. Remove all the mind-sets and strongholds that I have built to defend my false beliefs and values. Remove all patterns of thinking, philosophies, ideology, lies and values not of your kingdom. Remove all layers of doubt and unbelief. Remove all my emotional layers of rejection, insecurity, fear, dependence, Remove all layers of guilt and shame. Remove all layers of anger, resentment, bitterness and unforgiveness. Remove all layers of control, independence, stubbornness and rebellion, pride and self-sufficiency.
Give me revelation of my true identity as a son of God. Renew my mind to the mind of Christ. Meet all my unmet needs in yourself. Heal all my unhealed hurts. Restore my soul to wholeness by reintegrating all my parts. I receive your unconditional love, acceptance, affirmation, approval. I stand transparent, naked and unafraid before you. I hear you say “I see you and I love you”. I receive your value, esteem and worth. I receive your strength, patience, perseverance, courage, boldness, humility and confidence. I put my trust in you, Father, and I choose to rest in your love, joy and peace.
We are now going to release healing sounds and frequencies to release any trauma within your soul, memories known or hidden. To release trauma from the cells of your brain and body to bring love, joy and peace into your being Jesus is yoked to you as the Prince of Peace. Jesus is the Way, Truth and life. Jesus is perfect love. Jesus is safe and secure, and you can trust Him with your soul. Let the sound frequencies and fragrances penetrate any barriers. Let your body, soul and spirit resonate as the sounds and frequencies go around you and in you. It may feel like an intense intrusion but try not to resist it. Let the healing frequency of love release trauma from your memories. Let healing frequencies release trauma from the cells of your body. Let the healing frequencies release trauma from your mind and the cells of your brain. Let love, joy and peace heal you and fill you. Allow the sound frequency of love, joy and peace to penetrate into the sub-conscious layers of fear and trauma.
We are then going ask Jesus to call any part stuck or fragmented into the safe place of His love. Ask Jesus to reveal if you are emotionally stuck at any ages; call the part to come to Jesus. Jesus is inviting that part of you to walk into Him, Peace, and be restored in love. Each child, come back into peace and be reintegrated into emotional wholeness. Ask Jesus to call any dissociated fragment parts of you to come out of the fear of darkness into the light of His love. You call them yourself to come into the safe place of peace and love with Jesus. Let each part respond and come into peace and love to be reintegrated.