Our identity is who we are in Christ; Our destiny is to be conformed to His image.
All changes come through the principle of transference, the Holy Spirit literally interpenetrates every area of our life and we partake of the same glory.
John was caught up to heaven and was listening to one of the cloud of witnesses, and he fell at his feet to worship him, because he sounded and looked so much like Jesus. He was a full grown manifested son of God, and the Holy Spirit was the one speaking through him.
Revelations 19: 10And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
The Holy Spirit’s job, his role in our lives, is making us like Christ. He takes the provision and imparts it to us. He takes what is of Christ and gives it to us. As we become aware of His personality on the inside of us as we join our spirit to His, we begin to partake of it.
When Jesus asked, who do people say that I am? He was making a point about identity. When we know who we are, then we also start to know how we are supposed to live.
Our lifestyle has to come in line with who God says that we are. When God reveals who we are in the spirit, then we know how we are to live with the Lord, how we are to relate to Him. How we are to show up in this life and how we are to relate to those around us.
We have to start interacting with people with that identity, because we have something to contribute to all the people that God has put immediately around us.
When we are changed and transformed, it is because the goodness and kindness of God has made an impact upon our life; it is impressed upon our heart through a fresh encounter with the nature of God.
Everything in the kingdom is relational. Everything is about knowing who God is for us, and who He wants to be in us. When we experience God doing in our life what we could not do for ourselves, He has become more real in our life. We begin to experience God in our heart and in our circumstances.
If we don’t know the identity of who God really is, and what God is really, really like, we do not know who He wants to become to us and in us. First God reveals His nature to us, and then through that revelation we begin to partake of it ourselves.
If we do not know who we are in Christ, we can only go so high when we are filled with the Spirit and then later we will come back down again into where we have always been, because we have not learned how to walk in that identity. Knowing our identity lifts us higher and higher into the things of the Lord. We begin to see ourselves the way that God sees us and walk in the spirit.
God wants to show us who we are in eternity, how we are known in heaven. So as part of that He always reveals Himself to us, He tells us who He is for us.
When the Spirit of the Lord comes upon us, our soul comes into alignment with the flow of the Spirit in our spirit. But if we do not know how to abide in the life of the Lord, we will gravitate back down to the soul level. The spirit of the world can then enter into our soul.
We need to become aware of the different kinds of spirits that operate in the earthly realm.
Either God is flowing in our spirit, influencing our soul, or another spirit is operating in our soul. A spirit outside of the Spirit of God in us is influencing our mind and emotions.
The Spirit of God, the perfect provision is in us, when He permeates our soul then the atmosphere around us is charged with God, God now inhabits the atmosphere around us.
When our spirit is reaching out to God, His Spirit is descending upon us, God in us, through us, and around us. The provision, the kingdom of God is within us and our spirit has access to it, but the kingdom is also around us.
The breakthrough is always from God coming through our spirit and through our soul, or God coming from what we hear and see outside of us through our soul into our spirit. The soul is what stands between us and the God inside of us and outside of us.
When God connected with Moses and He brought him up to Mount Sinai, it was because God wanted to show him something about himself. When we are going through a time of transition, that transition must be accompanied by a fresh revelation of who God is for us.
In spiritual life and warfare we are not being challenged by the enemy, by wicked people, oppositional forces. The truth is; we are only ever challenged by the goodness of God. What is God doing in our life when someone opposes us; He is teaching us how to be good. He is teaching us in that moment how to give some of His goodness away to somebody that doesn’t like us.
We are citizens of heaven here on earth; we are being challenged by heaven to live like heaven.
We have to ask ourselves a question all the time, does this exist in heaven. Like frustration, is there any frustration in heaven? Then it is not to exist in our lives. What if we are not really being frustrated, but in reality we have not learned how to step out of self, into the spirit, and let the peace and patience of the Lord flow into our hearts. So we rejoice in this opportunity, to experience God’s patience.
We can never be challenged by a negative, ever! We can only be challenged by the fruit God’s Spirit. The fruit of the Spirit is our primary defense against all opposition.
John 16 tells us how the Holy Spirit is known in heaven; He is going to be your helper in all things. He will convict the world system of sin, so that we don’t have to do it. He convinces people of their need for righteousness. He has judged the ruler of this world on our behalf, and we can be set free.
He will lead us by experience into all truth. He will disclose what is to come because He is a prophetic Spirit. He will glorify Jesus to us and in us. He will take the provision of Jesus and reveal it to us. This is how the Holy Spirit is known in heaven.
Jesus is the radiance of the father’s glory, the exact representation of His nature. That is His identity; He is the image of the invisible God, and the firstborn of the new creation.
Every problem, every difficulty, every obstacle, every giant between where we are now and our future has already been taken care of, all we need to know is who God wants be to us, and who he wants to become in us.
Whenever the lord connects with us, He connects with us the way He see’s us in eternity, if we are falling short he always lets us know in his own gentle way. He is always speaking to our identity. He is always speaking to who we are in Christ. Once He tells us our identity. Once He reveals to us this is how you are known in heaven, then that is the way that He speaks to us from that point on. He will always talk to us from our identity.
When we say yes, to the lordship of Jesus Christ, and learn how to walk in the flow of the Spirit we can always feel our spirit rise up within us and bringing our soul into subjection to it. This is how we grow spiritually.
The joyful thing about it is that we start interacting with problems and difficulties and difficult people according to our new nature, our new identity which we are putting on, and this causes us to begin to grow spiritually.
As our anointing grows, as our relationship grows so does our capacity for enjoying every single thing in life. Everything we experience in life is an opportunity, to look to the lord, for who he wants to become to us, who he wants to become in us. We will recognize that joy is available in every single circumstance of life. Love is available in every single circumstance, his peace is available. We will travel with everlasting joy on our head, in our heart, in our mouth.