Wednesday, December 29, 2004

We Are In Jesus Today

"At that day ye shall know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you." John 14:20 (We shall know, confidence, fully assured, no man able to pluck it away from us, the Holy Spirit will cause us to know!)

There is no greater Truth that will empower the believer than the Truth that once we are empowered by the Holy Spirit to say yes to Jesus and make Him the Lord of our lives, that we actually become one with God through Him. This Truth will empower our obedience towards the Lord, it will strengthen and permit our abilities to serve, and it will allow us to be the children that God intended for us to be. Unity with our Father brings peace, joy, faith, hope, love, forgiveness, power, wisdom, knowledge, discernment, healings, and miracles, and all of them at Godly levels! Mere human abilities are diminished to obscurity by the presence of God! We no longer walk alone. It is no longer just up to us to try and be a good Christian, it is now by the power of God within us that we are able to be who we should be in Christ! Our Father is now within us and we are now in Him! He consumes us and every fiber of our being is united with God, the Creator of it all!

This is why Jesus went to the Cross, to enable us to become one with God, as He is one with God. “That they all may be one; as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me.” John 17:21

I will say it again, there is no greater Truth than the one we are about to study: we are now and forevermore one with Jesus, our Lord and Savior! He is in us and we are one with the Father through Him, and the Holy Spirit has been sent to dwell permanently within us. We now enjoy unity with the Father, we are born of Him, His Divine Sperm has conceived us. We are born again from His Divine and Incorruptible Seed! Jesus is in the Father and we are now in Jesus, and Jesus is now in us! We are now one with the Lord and as we will read, Jesus proclaims that we are perfected in One!

Our Father proclaims, through John, that we need no one to teach us, because through His Holy Spirit, He will teach us all things. "But the anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him." 1 John 2:27 This truth of our unity with God and with each other, can only be taught to us by the Holy Spirit. The magnificence of who we are in Christ and the unity that we enjoy with Him, and the power activated by that unity, will run contrary to most religious teaching. This is why we will use dozens upon dozens of verses to proclaim it. Yet without the Spirit of God revealing His Truth, they cannot be received and accepted! He is the One Who teaches us all things!

So often rely on a preacher, a tape series, a study guide such as this to teach us. But we have a Father Who has the time, the patience, the love, the wisdom, and the desire to teach us all things! I will write and share what He has taught and shared with me, and you will share with others what He has taught you, as we both should. But we should never place a preacher, a tape series, a church, or a book before our Father. Don’t even put the Bible before your one on one relationship with God. I love the written Word of God, it is Jesus, it is God, the Word written in the Bible was with God from the beginning of time and it will be with Him for all of eternity, but it is not all of Jesus. John writes in John 21:25 that all the books in the world could not contain the works of our Lord. Yet we have the complete and total Spirit of God dwelling within us, and He will teach us all things! Don’t ever neglect that precious time spent in fellowship with the Father. “Pray at all times (on every occasion, in every season) in the Spirit, with all [manner of] prayer and entreaty. To that end keep alert and watch with strong purpose and perseverance, interceding in behalf of all the saints (God's consecrated people).” Ephesians 6:18 Amplified Bible

We don't just have to read our Father's love letters and Truth’s to us, we can talk one on one with Him. As we read something or experience something, the Holy Ghost will expound upon it, just as Jesus expounded on it to the Disciples. The Holy Spirit will lead us through our everyday lives in constant and continual fellowship. I have two children, Kennedy and Lauren, and the greatest gift they can give me is their time and their attention. We have been strengthened with Christ, the Anointing of God, and He leads us in the paths of righteousness, and He leads us in our fellowship with the Father. This fellowship and unity gives us the strength, desire, and ability to fully study and walk in the Truth’s that the Bible holds.

"At that day ye shall know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you." John 14:20 That day Jesus is referring to is the day when the Holy Ghost comes to dwell within us, I will not write out all of the verses here, but if you read all of John 14 you will see that is the Truth. What I want you to see here is that we will know that we are one with Christ. Make sure you know! I was so blessed when I was eleven to have a complete life changing experience that allowed me to know and I have never doubted it since. I know that this day is the day of my salvation and I know that Jesus is in me and that I am in Him. Too many of us don’t know and we live in a constant state of doubt and fear, fear of loosing our relationship with God, fear of not pleasing God, just plain fear that is contrary to faith. Fear brings torment and condemnation and these are contrary to the blessings of God. We do not have to live that way; God loves us completely, we can have complete assurance of who we are in Christ. And there is now therefore no condemnation to us who are in Christ Jesus, Romans 8:1!

Pray that all who read this study and all who you and I come in contact with will know that they are in Christ and that He is in them! I thank God that we are all vessels of His Anointing, that God uses us to be a great blessing in the lives of those whom we have contact with. I thank God that they see our unity with Him, that they see the Spirit in operation within us, and that they eagerly desire the same thing! When people receive a revelation of who they are in Christ and that He is actually dwelling within them, when they see the unity they possess with the Alpha and the Omega, the world and satan loose! The strength and assurance of God’s Truth consumes them, peace that passes understanding and unspeakable joy flow through and from their lives as never before, it is an awesome revelation that empowers the believer to be used by God to do His mighty works! Plain and simple it is the only way we will ever do any work of the Lord!

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