The life of God flows into our spirit producing an awareness of the nature and power of God. With this awareness of the Spirit of God comes the authority to rule as we are submitted to God’s rule in our lives.
We are participating in a common life that is motivated by love to bring the rule of heaven upon the earth.
Our spirit is joined to the lord through the intimacy of love, and as it becomes one with the lord it becomes a place of authority in us. In our oneness with the Spirit of the Lord, God is seated on the throne of our spirit.
Because of the joining of our spirit with the Lord we are in a place of rest. Our spirit does not desire one thing and the Spirit of the Lord another.
So, it is through our awareness of being one spirit with the Lord that we can speak with authority from our spirit the will of God into the earth.
The rule of God is the rule of love; it is the expression of God’s nature being outworked in our lives and in the lives of others.
When God is on throne, the place of government of our lives: then the kingdom can manifest in us, through us and around us. The works of Jesus are the demonstrations of power, motivated by the love of God to bring about the will of God in the natural realm.
When God is sitting on our throne of our spirit, heaven and the angelic realm recognizes the seat of government and engages around us to help bring the manifestation of Gods will into the earth.
When God is on the throne of our spirit we are also on our throne seated with Him in the heavenly places. Authority can then be released to change and influence everything around us
We are learning how to frame or shape our lives through the words we speak from our governmental position. When our spirit is one with the Lord, our decrees and declarations carry authority from the throne of God.
There is accountability for what flows through us and what we speak, so we need to learn to guard our words as we are in training to be kings. There is a process that brings maturity in government.
We must learn how to walk in His ways as a servant; we have to choose to be a bond servant which is a servant in love with His master. We are first of all a bondservant and then out of that relationship we minister through the gifts and callings the Lord has given us.
God calls and empowers bond servants to become stewards. Stewards are given gifts, callings and resources to administer on behalf of the Lord. They are “talents” or abilities in ministry for God’s glory. It is out of this place that God calls us to friendship. Many are too busy serving to hear this deeper call.
John 15:15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.
When we accept the call to intimacy as a friend, He begins to reveal His heart about what is to come, who we are in the future, our destiny and the process of sonship.
There is a process of learning to trust the Lord and grow in our relationship. Our Training in discipleship is to encourage our maturity as we learn to overcome and rule. This process involves trials that reveal our heart attitudes and motives. The testing of our faith is to reveal to us our hearts condition, so that we learn how to trust the Lord to become in us that which is lacking in our appropriation of the divine nature.
We begin a process of discipleship to be trained so we mature to sonship. Heb 12:7 It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
Heb 12:10 He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness. 11 All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.
Trials provide us with the opportunity to enable us to learn to overcome and rule in this life through our appropriation of the divine nature.
As we learn to overcome and mature, He begins to call us closer Rom 5:17 for if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.
We begin our journey from slavery to sonship with the attitude of a bond servant, as we experience the presence of the Lord, it frees us from what we were held captive to but also imparts the desire to continue to serve. We must learn how to walk in His ways as a good steward of all His resources
John 15:15 … but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. There is a transition in discipleship from servants and stewards to Friends, Lords, Kings and then manifest SONS. This is when we begin to enter through the veil into the realms of the Spirit within and the realms in heaven.
Through the process of discipleship that leads us into transformation, our spirit, soul and body come under the government of God from the seat of rest in our spirit. And then from that place of rest, Jesus exercises the authority of the kingdom through us to bring everything into subjection to God’s will and purpose.
We must learn to live from the place of rest in authority as joint heirs in His kingdom
Psalm 110:1–2 The LORD said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool.” The LORD shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies! We are joint heirs and can rule out of Zion – the heavenly city of God.