The Pathway of Relationship develops from the intimacy and relationship of first love with God within our spirit.
It is where we establish our identity of our spirit as a house, a mountain and gateway.
It is where soul and spirit reintegrate and where a flow begins outwards.
We engage the Pathway of Responsibility when we learn to access beyond the veil and take our positions on the mountains and thrones of the heavenlies. Seated in the heavenly realms we established kingdom government.
As a gateway of heaven the kingdom fills and expands our boundaries.
We have heavenly and earthly spheres of authority and government.
Matt 6:10 Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
It is our responsibility to learn how to establish the “as it is” of the kingdom in heaven so it can manifest on 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 over … it
As God’s children His sons and heirs we have been given this mandate or authority to rule.
Heb 10:19 Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh,
Zech 3: 7 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘If you will walk in My ways and if you will perform My service, 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.
We have a lot of maturing to do but fortunately we have a transformation process to follow.
The more we live in creative light, in our position of righteousness, the more we begin to resonate and become holy as the Father is holy. Our spirit, soul and body become whole in oneness.
2 Cor 3:18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.
We are changed from glory to glory as we engage with God in creative light.
Rom 12:1-2 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, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
4 chambers of the heart and the dark cloud are also parallel processes.
Understanding our Ketubah is about coming into a covenant marriage agreement to fulfil our destiny in the context of our eternal relationship
Our eternal spirit and our soul begin to become reintegrated and resonate together in the convergence of time and eternity.
Soul and spirit coming into oneness and agreement
The fatherhood and sonship relationship is key to us knowing our identity and our position in sonship
We need to be transformed into that image of sonship
This needs to become part of our daily lives where we walk the pathways that have been prepared for us in eternity
Being a living sacrifice will test the motives of our heart
Help us develop a servant heart so as we fulfil our destiny we will bring God glory
To be a living sacrifice we need an altar, fire, offering and a High Priest
Key truths we can use in the transformation process
Ps 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts; 24 and see if there be any hurtful way in me and lead me in the everlasting way.
Heb 4:12 For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged 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.
The 3 levels of transformation
Heb 4:14 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 15 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.
Matt 4:8 Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory; 9 and he said to Him, “All these things I will give You, if You fall down and worship me.” 10 Then Jesus said to him, “Go, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only.’”
Heb 4:16 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.
We will continually need to draw near in relationship and intimacy
Intimacy releases identity
Identity releases responsibility
Responsibility requires transformation
Living sacrifice process enables us to engage the pathway of responsibility with its governmental perspective
By dealing with what limits us ruling, serving, legislating and administrating
If we use our position to give us our identity and to meet our needs for significance it will restrict the level authority, we can use.
The living sacrifice process will challenge our existing attitudes our mind-sets, values, belief systems etc.
It will identify if we are using our position and works to meet our own needs.
It will reveal what we are using to feed ourselves
It will reveal if we are using our own efforts and works to give us our selfworth, self-esteem and validation
We will need to learn to engage the place of self-sacrifice
We will need to learn how to die to self
We will need to learn how to embrace the cross
To access the dimensions of heaven we must go through the cross
The cross guarantees the exchange of our robes of righteousness when we enter heaven through it.
It is the new covenant exchange and first heavenly trade that we make by faith to receive new for old.
We must not use our access into heaven and our positions of heavenly authority to meet our own needs
I am a king who has a servant heart and serves God and others by ruling
I am who God says I am and I can do everything and anything He says I can do
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,
The mercies of God are the only correct way to be a living sacrifice so our lives can become offerings to God
Our lives becomes the incense that enables us to engage His person
The mercies of God are new every morning
Freedom from sin – Rom 6:16-18
Gift of eternal life – Rom 6:23
Peace with God – Rom 5:1
The grace of God – Rom 5:2
Salvation from wrath – Rom 5:9
The gift of repentance – Rom 2:4-5
Lam 3:22 The Lord’s mercies loving-kindnesses indeed never cease, for His compassions never fail. 23 They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.24 “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I have hope in Him.”25 The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the person who seeks Him.
This is our true trade in the cross the greatest covenant exchange is made by faith, not works.
If we use our position to give us our identity and to meet our needs for
significance it will restrict the level authority we can use
Our works exchanged for His work.
1 Peter 5:6 Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time,
The way up is down.
Humble ourselves and He will exalt us.
Our attitude brings our altitude.
Everything comes by grace, God’s enabling power, through faith our simple trust in His ability.
I receive my identity as a son because He makes me, adopts me, calls me His son.
I receive my righteousness not through anything I do but only by His grace.
He makes me righteous therefore I am only righteous in Christ.
The correct way to enter is through Jesus, the door, by the way of the cross
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 I now live in the flesh I live by faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Denial of self by crucifixion with Christ.
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.
Those are paradoxes, the way up is down, being a living sacrifice, dying to live
This produces the abundant, overflowing life that nothing else can compare to.
Amazing relationship where I cannot truly live without Christ living in me.
I must die to self by denying self.
True humility is me accepting who I am because of Him and not me.
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.
John 6:66 As a result of this many of His disciples withdrew and were not walking with Him anymore.
Having this attitude of self-denial enables us to come into our positions as sons and joint heirs.
I am in the new covenant not because I made an agreement with God but because I am in Christ and He is in me.
John 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
John was talking about his position
Old must decrease for the new to increase
True for the old covenant and my soul
Matt 11:11 Truly I say to you, among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptist! Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
We need to take that attitude of heart further – I must be nothing by my flesh so that He can be everything by the spirit.
Flesh profits nothing but it sure tries to..
Being a living sacrifice allows Him as High Priest to prepare me to serve and rule
I must become free from the motives of self-promotion, where a position brings affirmation to meet my need for significance.
The thoughts and intentions of the heart get tested by the fires of heaven to reveal true our motives.
I enter heaven governmentally through the way Jesus made, that is the only legitimate door, the cross.
He was our forerunner and example our role model in attitude and heart.
Mark 10:45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
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. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
John 5:19 I only do what I see the Father doing.
We must learn these attitudes from Him – Jesus is the best example of sonship.
The pathways of relationship and responsibility run parallel to each other and can be walked simultaneously.
Parallel processes of preparing our gateways and becoming a living sacrifice need to be engaged simultaneously.
Preparing our gateways is about dealing with the hindrances to our relationship and identity and works from the inside out and gives us access to heaven relationally.
It removes the blockages in us
So as being gateways ourselves heaven can flow through us spirit, soul and body to the world.
The living sacrifice process is about dealing with the hindrances and blockages to our ruling
This operates in us personally as we become the sacrifice that the high priest prepares.
3 levels in soul/spirit, motives and genetic factors.
This prepares me governmentally so I can access heaven from the outside in.
Outer court – Kingdom of God
Inner court – Kingdom of heaven
Heaven – Holy of holies
The level of authority and access we have is proportional to the level of holiness we have
Holiness is the outworking of my righteousness not by self-effort
To rule as LORDS in the kingdom of God we need to deal with the outer level of the transformation process,
Separation of soul and spirit our soul behaviours (coping and defence mechanisms etc.) Transparency, openness and a willingness to have our blind-self revealed
To rule as KINGS in the kingdom of Heaven we need to deal with the next deeper level
The thoughts and intentions of the heart our motives
Deal with the negative trading floor exchanges where we follow the pathway of the knowledge of good and evil by using our own works
To rule as SONS in heaven we need to go to the deepest levels of transformation even to a genetic level
Bone and marrow our hidden source
Rom 8:29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;
Zech 3:7 shows the process of maturity to greater levels of responsibility
Zech 3:7 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘If you will walk in My ways and if you will perform My service, 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.
Rom 12:1-2 indicates that there needs to be a non-conformity to the world and a conformity to sonship by renewing (process) of the mind.
To know God’s perfect will, our destiny and daily mandates. we need to be transformed and conformed – Shaped into a different heavenly Mould.
This is not a performance orientated process of earning greater position in the heavenly realms but a relational process where we learn that we don’t need a position to give us identity.
It’s the opposite: knowing our identity will gives us our governmental position through having a living sacrifice attitude.
Heaven is accessed through surrender.
We are responsible as sons to rule the created universe.
The physical created realm & the spiritual unseen created realm.
Are we willing to take that responsibility and be accountable as sons of God?
Are we willing to embrace the cross?