Our spirit has senses, or abilities in which we sense the presence of God. Our spirit becomes aware of the life of God which flows into it, which enables us to fellowship with God. Our spirit gives us a conscious awareness of God and the spiritual realm.
Our spiritual senses become gateways in which the life of God flows into our soul and transforms it. Our soul is our self-awareness, and as the life of God flows into it, we become self-conscious in union with God, which causes us to see ourselves differently.
The reverence, fear of God, worship and prayer gates are like fellowship gates, they are relational gates, and they help us fellowship with God and experience Him, engage with Him and come into deeper intimacy with Him.
The faith, hope, revelation, intuition and the heavenly first love gates are about revelation, they are revelatory gate ways, they give us insight, wisdom and knowledge and they help us to understand and to function in the spirit.
We open the first love gate in our spirit and embrace the love of God. Through our spirit we are aware of God’s love flowing into our soul and we can feel and imagine God embracing us.
It is through the first love gate in our spirit that we become aware of the kingdom realm. We become aware of God’s total acceptance of us.
It is through practicing this, through our awareness this gateway gets developed so that the life of God can fill us and make us whole which is salvation.
We have to become established in our total acceptance by God, and spend time just being embraced by the presence of God. We are permanently, mystically united to God in the deepest intimacy that can be experienced.
It is through the first love gateway that we discover who we are in Christ so that we are no longer self-conscious apart from Him.
Salvation no longer is a doctrine, but a person we experience, Christ in us the confident expectation of our glorification-being transformed into His image.
We can then begin to outwork our salvation as we discover how the life of God flows through the gateways of spirit, soul and body.
It is as we are established in the love of God, that we can then express that love as it flows through the reverence gate in our spirit into our soul.
Reverence is how honor and respect for God get out worked in our life because reverence helps us to keep our life in alignment with who He is, so that we please Him.
Through the life of God flowing through the reverence gate in our spirit into our soul we can begin to make decisions based on what will please God rather than what will please ourselves.
It is important that we see how the reverence gate in our spirit interacts with our soul gates. Our soul gates are conscience, reason, imagination, mind, emotions, choice, and will.
The life of God needs to flow though our spirit into our soul gates. Our soul gates have been influenced by what has come from the outside in. Now they need to be re-influenced and transformed by what comes from the inside out.
In our relationship with and fellowship with God, experiencing His life flowing within us we begin to know Him intimately within us. This then will influence and impact how we know ourselves and then we become self-conscious only in connection with God.
Adam was never self-conscious or world conscious outside of being spiritually aware and in relationship with God until he sinned.
Because we were not conscious of God’s life flowing into us, we learned a whole lot of things from the outside in, through the world and people that has influenced how we see ourselves.
Our soul is to mediate who we are in our spirit, as our spirit is engaging in heaven. Who we really are created to be in our spirit, our soul then mediates that and enables that to come into manifestation in the earth. Our soul begins to take on the reflection of our spirit because our spirit is aware of heavenly things.
When we step into heaven through the first love gate in our spirit, we are a spiritual light being and this enables our soul to reflect that and begin to transform itself into that heavenly pattern.
When our soul has been the major influence in our lives it has actually determined who we think we are, and shaped how we think, how we feel, and how we act.
But when our spirit is engaging with the unseen realm, then our soul can come into alignment and begin to reflect the life that is flowing through our spirit.
The more time we spend in the presence of God and the more time we spend as a light being in heaven, the stronger our spirit becomes, and our spirit becomes the major influence and therefore our soul surrenders to it and aligns itself to it.
So it is important to get the reverence gateway in our spirit open and flowing so that we can be transformed from the inside out and then we can become a reflection of our eternal image, so that we can radiate the glory of God like Jesus did. Jesus engaged the world with his spirit first, rather than His soul and body.
As we begin to learn how the reverence gate works in our spirit, we can see the flow of God influence our soul gates so that they can come into alignment with who we are in heaven and we can manifest the divine nature in the earth.
We find the understanding of reverence in three Greek words, (Strong’s reference number).
2150-eusébeia-from 2152-devout, godly. Reverence, respect, godliness, Devotion, holiness, devoutness toward God. The word eusébeia literally means well-directed reverence, but does not imply an inward, inherent holiness. It is the flow of the Spirit into us. Eusebeia is a noun occurring fifteen times in the New Testament with the predominant sense of “godliness,” “piety,” denoting devotion to God characterized by a life of conformity to his will, or godly living.
2152-eusebés from eú 2095, well, and sébomai 4576, to revere. Reverent, pious, devout.
4576-sébomai-To worship, to reverence.
1 timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness(reverence): God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
Acts 3: 12And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? Or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness (reverence) we had made this man to walk?
Peter acknowledges that reverence was not inherent in his soul. It was a flow of the Spirit into his spirit released through his soul and body manifesting in power to heal the lame man.
The life of God flowed out of heaven into his spirit and through the reverence gate in his spirit, in honoring God, through his soul and body he ministered the healing power of God.
1 Tim 4: 7But refuse profane and old wives’ fables and exercise thyself rather unto godliness 8For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
We need to get the reverence gate in our spirit open and flowing and practice honoring God in who we are, what we Say and do.
1 Timothy 2:1I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 2For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness (reverence) and honesty 3For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 4Who will have all men to be saved , and to come unto the knowledge of the truth . 5For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
As the life of God flows through our reverence gate and is expressed in our life, it will draw people into the experience of salvation. God actively wills everyone to experience salvation, the restoration to wholeness.
We come into wholeness through the life of God flowing through our reverence gate bringing our soul into union with our spirit, and we reflect the divine nature so that others desire what we possess.
1 Timothy 61Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. 2And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort. 3If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness (reverence); 4He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strife’s of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmising’s, 5Perverse disputing’s of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.6But godliness with contentment is great gain.
1tim 6: 10For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 11But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. 12 fight the good fight of faith and lay hold of eternal live
2 Timothy 3:1This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;5Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers’ lusts,7Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Titus 1 :1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;3 But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
2 peter1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,3 according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness through the knowledge of him that called us to glory and virtue 4Whereby we are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises; that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust 5And beside this giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6 and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness 7 and to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity .8 For if these things be in you and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 peter 3: 8But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 11Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
2peter 2: 7And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 8(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) 9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly (Reverent) out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
Acts 10:1There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, 2A devout (reverent) man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
Acts 16: 13And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither. 14And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped( to reverence) God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
Acts 18: 11And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. 12And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat, 13Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship( to reverence) God contrary to the law.
Math 15: 7Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,8This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. 9But in vain they do worship (to reverence) me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. 10And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: 11Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.