Divine attributes are living, they have substance, they are powerful, and they transform our life.
The eternal life of God is the nature of God and consists of divine attributes that flow out of Christ in us into our spirit and as our soul comes into harmony with them we begin to be filled and clothed with them.
The way that we are transformed is being clothed with God. We can see in the Old Testament That when the Spirit of God would come upon a person that person would be changed.
1 Samuel 10: 6 And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.
The Spirit of God would come upon Samson, and he could kill a thousand men. The Spirit of God would come upon David, and he could leap a wall, the Spirit of God would come upon Elijah and he could outrun a chariot.
When the Spirit of God left Saul, an evil spirit of jealousy then came upon Saul which caused him to want to kill David.
When Saul full of the devil came into this atmosphere of the school of the prophets, the devil left him, and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he threw off his armor and fell under the power of God. When the Spirit of God lifted off him, he turned back into his old self. 1 Sam 19:18-24
When a move of God sweeps through the church if it’s intense enough the people are so impacted by the power of God that their life will be changed.
But if they do not learn how to be continually filled with the Spirit and walk in the Spirit so that their mind is renewed by the Spirit, in 12 months they will go back to the way they were. They will begin to be programmed again from the outside in through their life experiences in the world and lose the impact of the move of God upon them.
It is wonderful to have a move of God but most of them dissipates. This is one of the reasons we must learn how to get the gateways of our spirit, soul and body open, cleansed and flowing with the life of God so that we become a Move of the Spirit.
In a move of the Spirit people get transformed, they feel wonderful, they are different people for weeks and months, but they don’t know how to walk in it.
And then after a year or so they start talking about wasn’t that a wonderful move of God but they are back to where they were because they don’t know how to live and walk in the kingdom principles.
Rom 13: 14But put ye on (command to begin this moment, clothe yourselves, get into the spirit) the Lord Jesus Christ, and make (command to do something in the future with involves continuous action) not provision (before-to think, fore thought) for the flesh, to fulfill (motion into) the lusts (longing, strong desire) thereof.
We are to put on the Lord Jesus Christ, the armor of light, the new man. These are in the aorist tense not continuous, something we are to keep on, speaking of spiritual clothing. We are to be clothed with the attributes of God.
The divine attributes of God are transferable. The life of God flows into our spirit, through our soul and body out into the atmosphere around us so that we are aware of the presence of the Lord. We are changed through exposure to the glory of God.
People want to go to meetings, conferences to get a touch from God. They ask God to touch them with his power and change them.
God wants us to clothe ourselves in something that’s going to do the work for us. This is the way that God operates. And as we learn how to develop in this so that it becomes second nature to us, then the light of God has come, and his glory has risen upon us, shines out of our spirit upon us.
God is light and as we begin to clothe ourselves in his light then that light has the power to transform us, heal and restore us and change our life. As we learn how to develop this we are going to change dramatically, and we will begin to walk in glory and light.
It is not hard to do when our spirit is alive to God, it is a choice, and it is a way of life that has become part of us.
Most of our thoughts are just thoughts, until they connect with emotion. When our thoughts connect with desire or feeling a power is released. This is a spiritual law.
The life of God flows into the gateways or senses of our spirit, but then it must flow into the gateways of our soul. It is in our soul where we mainly find the blockages.
The life of God flows into the revelation gate of our spirit as spontaneous thoughts. Anytime when God begins to speak to us – if it is really God – we call it revelation. Revelation is coming and we know it is God, because it is entering into our soul, it is affecting our mind, our thinking; it affects our emotions, it begins to flood our whole being. Revelation is not just a thought; it is also a feeling.
As the life of God begins to flow into our soul where it is entering into our mind and emotions then it begins to flood our whole being.
The Revelation of God fills us, it floods us, and it is light. It fills up our whole being. We know God is speaking. It is a revelation. It is not just an abstract thought. It is connected with feeling; it flows into our soul that fills us with light.
Our soul is made of 3 primary parts – mind, emotion, will. And the life of God must flow into all 3 parts in order to be clothed with the Spirit of God.
We activate our spirit through our will so that it begins drawing and connecting with God. We tune into the fruit of the Spirit so that we can begin feeling it.
We must learn how to hold the focus of our thoughts upon the lord until they connect with our emotion or feelings and desires. When thought and emotion connect, they become a power, and they become living, they become a light.
We need to understand that things like love, joy, and peace of God. And also, the human attributes of hate, bitterness and jealousy are not just attitudes. They are far more than just attitudes they are a power and a substance.
Each of these attitudes radiates out from us as a power or a light or a force. And that begins to clothe us; we begin to clothe ourselves in that. This light or power around a person clothes the person in it and draws them further into it whether it is negative or positive.
In 1 John 2: 9 says- he that saith he is in the light and hates his brother is not in the light but is in darkness. He is talking to Christians here that say they are walking in the light, but they have an attitude in their heart towards their brother which clothes them in darkness.
1 John 2:10 says- and he that loves his brother lives in the light or abides in the light and there is no occasion of stumbling in him. So, we see this, that he that loves his brother clothes himself in light.
Self-pity will envelop us in its power and the darkness that comes from self-pity is a force or a power that will so clothe us that it can totally imprison us.
We must put on the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
When we begin to be thankful, when we begin to praise God and worship him we become clothed in the power of light which destroys that spirit of heaviness.