Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you. Psa 139:16 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book (scroll) were all written the days that were ordained for me. Your destiny to rule – bring heaven to earth
Gen 1:28 God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule.
Investiture
Psa 24:7 Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in 8 Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty. Zech 3:6 And the angel of the LORD admonished Joshua, saying, 7 “Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘If you will walk in My ways and if you will perform My laws, then you will also govern My house and also have charge of My courts, and I will grant you free access among these who are standing here . Preparing for Destiny – Investiture
Kingdom Earth
Kingdom God Kingdom Heaven
Heaven
Perfection
Eternity
Atmosphere Earth
Preparing for Destiny – Investiture
Time Line
Everlasting Doors
Rule House Judge Courts
Access & Stand
Keep my laws
Walk in my ways
Rulers/Darkness Principalities Powers Spiritual Hosts of wickedness Luke 17:21 Kingdom of God is within us
Heaven of Heavens
SONS KINGS LORDS Ruling in Love Ruling in Light Ruling Righteous Power Kingdom of God on Earth
•Dethronement of self, soul, me, myself & I •Nature – DNA programming •Nurture – environmental programming •Trauma – experiential programming •Restored to original eternal condition Preparing for Destiny – Succession
•Building up of the spirit •Restoring & refining of the soul •Spirit – Soul – Body Preparing for Destiny – Succession
Preparing for destiny – spirit building • Give God first love, place, priority • Pray & sing in tongues • Wait on the Lord – Be still • Meditate on word of God – Prov 4:20-23 • Praise & adoration – soak • Pray & Ask • Confess & Declare the truth, call things • Persevere • Desire – Discipline – Delight
• 1 Cor 14:1 Pursue love, yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts • 1 Cor 14:5 Now I wish that you all spoke in tongues, 18 I thank God, I speak in tongues more than you all; • 1 Cor 14:4 One who speaks in a tongue edifies himself; 14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful. • Jude 1:20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit Preparing for destiny – spirit building
• Tongues in meditation & bible reading • Tongues in ministry • Tongues for revelation & direction • Tongues to keep connected to God inside • Tongues keeps life flowing • John 7:38 Rivers of living water flowing • Isa 58:11 You will be like a well-watered garden, like an ever-flowing spring. Preparing for destiny – spirit building
•Soul – Flesh, Mind, Heart – self awareness •Gal 5:16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. •Gal 5:17 For the flesh sets its desire against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please. Preparing for Destiny – Soul
•John 15:5 I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. •John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. •Humanism – independence – no good Preparing for Destiny – Soul
•Die to self – self-centredness, selfishness •Self-importance, Self-promotion, Self-control •Self-reliance, Self-sufficiency, Self-belief •Self-righteousness, Self-help, Self-expression •Self-gratification, Self-indulgence •Self-respect, Self-esteem, Self-worth, Self-image Preparing for Destiny – Soul
Preparing for Destiny – Soul •Rom 12:1 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, •Come as a priest to present yourself at the altar as a living sacrifice to Jesus High Priest •By faith enter into the Holy Place in the heavenly tabernacle
Preparing for Destiny – Soul •By faith enter into the Holy Place in the heavenly tabernacle in surrender •Heb 10:19 Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus •1 John 1:17… the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. •Jesus our High Priest – who prepares the sacrifice
Preparing for Destiny – Soul • Sacrificial lamb was prepared • Ex 29:16 And you shall kill the ram 17 And you shall cut the ram in pieces and wash its entrails and legs and put them with its pieces and its head, • Slit it’s throat (dead) drained the blood • Chopped off its head • Skinned it • Split it open down to bone & marrow • Washed it’s inner organs • Cut off its legs
Preparing for Destiny – Soul • By faith enter into the Holy Place in the heavenly tabernacle in surrender to:- • Jesus our High Priest who prepares the sacrifice • Throat cut & the blood drained • Luke 9:23 And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. 24 For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it. • Exchanging of our lives for His life
Preparing for Destiny – Soul •Rom 6:11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, 13 and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
Preparing for Destiny – Soul •Head chopped off decision making surrendered. •Luke 22:42 yet not My will, but Yours be done.” •John 5:30 “I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. •John 4:34 “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.
Preparing for Destiny – Soul •Eph 4:15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, •Isa 6:6 For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; (we are His Body)
Preparing for Destiny – Soul •Stripped of your skin totally naked and transparent your flesh exposed before Him. •No self-righteousness •Defence or coping mechanism •Matt 6:33 But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Preparing for Destiny – Soul •Now seek first the Kingdom; God’s rule in you and your dominion in your world •You seek His righteousness His way of being (Fruit of the Spirit) and doing (Power of the Spirit) •You are under authority and you exercise authority •You expect God to add to you all that you need
Preparing for Destiny – Soul •Your body is split open down to your bones revealing the marrow •Heb 4:12 For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any twoedged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Preparing for Destiny – Soul •Open for God to reveal & cleanse your inward parts, emotions, heart (subconscious), will •Your spirit is separated from your soul the thoughts and motives of your heart are revealed & cleansed
Preparing for Destiny – Soul •Heb 4:12 For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart.
Preparing for Destiny – Soul •Your legs chopped off symbolic of a surrendered walk – obedient walk •You now walk by faith not by sight •Not my will but yours be done •Only do what you see the Father doing •Father abiding in you does His works
Preparing for Destiny – Soul •John 5:19 Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.
Preparing for Destiny – Soul •Gal 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which (the Christ) I now live in the flesh (the Christ) I lives by faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. •1 Cor 6:17 he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him