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, 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.
Spiritual service of worship. We are spirit, so this is what we were created for Service = worship = will of God. Worship is to serve God’s eternal purpose = His will. His will is my eternal destiny Who am I? What am I? Why am I?
Prove = recognize as genuine, approved, worthy – value and worth. Good = useful, agreeable, joyful, excellent, honorable – esteem. Acceptable = well pleasing, prosper, agreeable – significance. Perfect = complete, finished, mature, with integrity and virtue, eternal.
Will = command, precepts, desire, intention, purpose, wish, delight or pleasure, choice, determined outcome – purpose. Who are you? Your true identity is found only in a restored Father/son relationship with God. Destiny was agreed before creation. Release your full potential.
Purpose of transformation is to know God in relationship, and therefore to know His perfect will for our lives. My destiny is revealed to me in an intimate relationship – know God. To ‘know’ in Greek and Hebrew is only by personal experience, not head knowledge or information.
1 Cor 6:17 he who is joined [united] with God becomes one spirit with Him. It is compared with becoming one flesh in sexual union in 1 Cor 6:15-16. Serious level of experiential intimacy. He will hold nothing back – if we don’t. Can’t separate relationship from rulership. We serve from not for relationship.
Psa 139:16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance, and in Your book all the days [of my life] were written before ever they took shape, when as yet there was none of them. John 4:4 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work”.
Not conformed to the world but be conformed to a new, eternal image. Rom 8:29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son. Rom 8:19 For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God.
We serve God as sons not slaves: religion produces slaves. Relationship produces sons. If our identity is linked to a spirit of slavery we can seek to serve God because of wrong motives: duty, fear, position, promotion, recognition.
How can we be sure about our motives? By presenting ourselves to God daily and surrendering to the process of transformation. Deals with motives, attitudes etc. Deals with unmet needs, unhealed wounds and unresolved issues.
Present ourselves as living sacrifices. Analogy for our desire and motive to serve and worship God? Analogy for an attitude of heart? Daily declaring of words in prayer showing our desire to be transformed? Or experientially present our lives as living sacrifices by faith – in reality?
Where is the Altar? In the tabernacle. Where is the tabernacle? In the heavenly realms. Macro scale – pattern of the heavenlies. Micro scale – an actual dimensional realm of kingdom authority.
Sacrificial lamb was prepared by the priest.
Ex 29:16 And you shall kill the ram 17 And you shall cut the ram in pieces and wash its entrails and legs and put them with its pieces and its head, slit its throat (dead) drained the blood. Skinned it. Split it open and washed its inner organs. Split open backbone to reveal the marrow. Chopped off its head. Cut off its legs.
Head chopped off. Head is about government, rule or authority. Surrendering our choices, our rights and decision making. We become connected to the Head, Jesus. Luke 22:42 Yet not My will, but Yours be done.
John 4:34 My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work. John 5:30 I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
Eph 4:15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, Isa 9:6 For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; 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.
Now seek first the kingdom. God’s rule in you and your dominion in your world. You seek His righteousness: His way of being (fruit of the Spirit) and doing (power of the Spirit). You are under authority, and you exercise authority. You can confidently expect God to add to you all that you need.
Your legs chopped off. A surrendered walk – an obedient walk. 1 John 2:6 the one who says he abides in Him (Jesus) ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked. 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.
You now walk by faith, not by sight. John 5:19 Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner”. Father/son relationship leads to purpose, action, prospering.
John 14:10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works. John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me”. Jesus is the only way.
Heb 9:1 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation; 12 …but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption… 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Heb 9:24 For Christ did not enter a holy place made with hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; 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, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
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, 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.
Blood of Jesus is always on the mercy seat covering the ark. You come to make a connection at the mercy seat – cherubim. Your spirit must resonate, harmonize and agree with the contents of the ark. Expect God to reveal His will, word and heart, and release His authority.
John 4: But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”
John 4:4 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work”.
John 6:27 Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life
Tablets – Word of God – His word. His heart is written on our hearts.
Jer 31:33 I will put My law within them and on their heart, I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
John 5:19 See what the Father is doing.
Recognize Him around me.
Aaron’s rod God’s authority, anointing and power to do His will and purpose.
Matt 6:10 Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven.
Administer kingdom government
In our sphere of influence
In heaven first then on earth
Living sacrifice transformation changes us here. Living sacrifice transformation also gives us access to heaven. Living sacrifice transformation gives us the authority to manifest heaven on earth through our lives.
Practice engaging until you can live and operate out of the revelation you have accumulated, and it becomes a pathway of entrance. Learning to drive a car: instructor constantly reminds you to think and be aware, of mirrors, gears etc. When you can drive you apply it all automatically by second nature.
Live on the other side of the veil. Live in the realm of His presence. The earth responds to change when we govern from beyond the veil. Live our life in heaven on the earth. Not on earth out of the supply of heaven.
Jesus, I thank You that you have opened up the veil. You are the door, the matrix to the Father, into the realm of His presence. I thank You that You have torn the veil, so today by faith I step through the veil of the natural world into the realm of Your presence.
I thank You that while I am standing here in Your presence, I am a gate of eternity. I open the gate of eternity in me and I receive the realm of eternity. I receive the fullness of the breath of God into my body, that my body would take on the reflection of who I am in the kingdom as Your son.
Father, I engage that and I push and pull it in and draw it into my spirit being. I ask You to breathe into me, while I am in Your presence, the breath of Your spirit and Your being into me. I draw it into my spirit being, so I become one with You.
I step back into the atmosphere of the earth to administer the breath of God. I breathe out the breath of God into the atmosphere of the earth around my life to establish Your kingdom. I step forward into the realm of Your presence. I open my life to expose my inner being to Your presence.
All that I am, Father, I make open to Your presence to gaze upon. Jesus, you are my high priest, you take my living sacrifice and make me clean. I receive Your purity and holiness through the absolute cleansing of Your presence. Lord, I breathe You in. Baptise me afresh in Your Holy Spirit.
Bring me to the house of wine, to the banqueting table of Your presence, under the covering of Your government and love. I ask You to fill me with the wine of Your love and presence. I drink the wine of Your presence and engage this as provision for my life out of the realm of heaven.
I step back into the earth and release the wine and atmosphere of Your presence into this atmosphere around my life. I release it out of my spirit being through the matrix gate of eternity into the atmosphere of the earth to administer Your kingdom through me.