Before we were born in the time realm and became a living soul, God ordained the time and place we were to be born, he justified us and glorified us. He did all this before we were born.
On the earth God drew us to himself, we didn’t decide, well I think today is a good day to get saved, God invaded our lives, we didn’t choose Him, He choice us and drew us to Himself in such an amazing way that we responded to His Lordship over our lives.
The moment in time we said an unconditional yes to His lordship our spirit came alive to God, and we experienced Him inside of us. What we didn’t realize was that without Him we couldn’t do anything.
So, through our missing the mark and falling short of His glory, we began to learn how to totally depend upon Him, where His Spirit would begin to flow into us, causing us to respond and move in Him.
We began to learn how to walk in the living works, where God would anoint us, giving us Spirit filled words and actions bringing glory to Him.
We begin to learn how to speak in the Spirit, instead of speaking from ourselves. Instead of speaking from our flesh (our soul and body acting independently from God) we experienced God giving us the words to speak.
We learn how to partner with God, becoming co-labors with Him. As we find ourselves in situations and circumstances, we ask the Lord who He wants to become to us and in us and we find the attributes of God working in us. He works His love and joy and peace and all the attributes of His Spirit in us and we become partakers of the divine nature in the things that we do and speak.
When we find ourselves agitated, our soul is in the forefront of our consciousness, so we pause and learn how to step back into our spirit and move in God. We learn how to be slow to speak, and we start living by every word of God, every word the Holy Spirit reveals to us. We become a living epistle of Jesus Christ.
We find our steps being ordered of the Lord, and He uses every single situation and circumstance to work out for our good, which means through them we are being conformed to His image as we appropriate the divine nature.
We begin to rejoice in trouble, because through it we learn how to tune into Him and draw His Spirit into us, so that we partake of His provision and experience the life flow of His Spirit flowing into us.
We move from grace to grace, faith to faith, strength to strength, glory to glory, we experience more and more of His Spirit in our lives, it is truly amazing, because we are literally being transformed in our experiences.
By one sacrifice He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified (present tense-the process of being set apart exclusively to Him) – The Holy Spirit moving in us and our yielding to Him and then acting or moving in Him, our obedience is participating in the divine nature.
Romans 8: 28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. 29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. 31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
We begin to discern and learn how to pray with the Holy Spirit.
Romans 8: 26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27 Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
As our awareness of God inside us increases we learn how to enter into His rest, and become yoked to the Lord. And His yoke is easy and his burden light, because we share the yoke with Him.
The reason we struggle so in life, is because our awareness of the Lord has not yet increased to the point where we are continually filled with the Spirit so that our life is a flow in the Spirit, where we learn how to live in Him. It is a life of abiding in the lord, where His Spirit is enabled to live through us.
Galatians 2L 20I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me