God’s true purpose and intent is to indwell himself into humanity. God wants a priesthood; one who carries his authority and bares his image. It’s the true GLORY OF GOD (you when you are as him). He wants us all to be the likeness to The Lord Jesus Christ. This is why you are on this earth, to experience his life living through you. Did you know that YOU are a spiritual being created in the image of God before you ever descended to this world.
Matthew 5:48
“You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
The biggest lie of the devil (your carnal mind) is that it is impossible for you to be Christ like. Your experiences have shown you that you can’t be like your “heavenly Father is perfect.” You’ve tried it. You must understand that your experiences do not nullify the Word of God. You must seek for God and find him within yourself. And if you do find him then you will realize the reality of living a godly life and you will see yourself being transformed into His image.
How can you be Christ like? You must have an intimate relationship with God on a daily basis. YOU MUST NOT JUST WORK FOR GOD. You could work for God every day for the rest of your life doing religious activities (going to church every Sunday or teaching bible class, etc.) and never be filled with Christ. During Jesus’s time there were so many people that were willing and wanted to work as a disciple of Jesus. You see, I want to make it clear to you so you don’t fall into the devil’s trap and never receive your true salvation, if that be the case.
Matthew 7:22-23
“Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”
These “many” were ones that did all kinds of work in the name of the Lord yet he said that “I never knew you.” You must stop and take the time to know him, love him, be filled with him and in that way the flowing of God will change your life.
2 Corintians 5:17
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Romans 12:2
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Almost everything we have learned from Christianity has really deterred the filling of God in our lives. When people think they have to do all these religious works to be in God’s favor, they are falling into the trap of the devil and missing the real Gospel. No one will ever experience Christ in THEM if they are doing only all these religious activities to try to win with GOD. You must sit quiet and meditate in His presence and learn to enjoy the Lord almighty.
Psalm 46:10
“Be still and know that I am God”
When you enjoy being with God the essence of His life will grow within you resulting in the fruits of the spirit – joy and happiness.
You will never lose by spending and investing quality time with God. You can go out and work for God and still be a disappointment for your entire life. It must be God in us that takes every necessary step. If you were to get filled with God and become anointed and become a true disciple, at that point wherever you go you are ensured to be a great success. You can never lose if you become full of God. When you are filled with Christ people see the love of God shining in your life and they are attracted to you.
To be a minister today is life changing. You spread the Spirit of God wherever you go. Out of your deepest being stream love, light and life. That is the genuine significance of serving God. It is the greatest of all experiences in Man’s life.
The main way that the church (all those who are truly saved) will become a place of God in spirit and be built up a spiritual house, is that we must daily ingest “the Bread of Life” into our self. Meditate on these things and restore our minds so that we begin to put on the mind of Christ. When we have the mind of Christ our own minds are renewed and we begin to live from that renewed mind.
In Galatians Paul writes that Christ is called the seed.
“The seed is Christ” (Gal. 3:16).
We all have this Christ seed in us. As this seed starts to grow in us we, at that point, start to live as Jesus did while he was on earth. No measure of instructing, or spiritual Gifts will ever make you a vessel of God in the spirit. Huge numbers of God’s people are tricked into believing that since a pastor has spiritual gifts he is “God in Spirit” and are led by him. So many are misdirected when they start working in spiritual Gifts believing that that makes them to some degree developed in the things of God. You may work with spiritual gifts and still be living in the carnal mind of man. It certainly is special to have spiritual gifts but you must not settle for just having them. Someone who is like Christ will have spiritual gifts but they will use them only in such a way as to not bring attention and/or fame to themselves. You will find in the Bible where Jesus would tell those whom he healed to keep quiet about it.
When we become a vessel of Christ, when his spirit so dominates our mind with the love and the light, our carnal nature in our mind will just disappear. When we receive the spirit of Christ into ourselves and then learn to enjoy the spirit daily we will, in time, grow up into him in all things. It is a process and will not happen overnight, but eventually you will be transformed from one degree of glory to another day by day.
You can only experience the spirit of God if you become a new creation of man; regenerated, born again. It is then that you must focus all your attention on the seed of Christ so that it will grow as it is already pre-programmed (like a seed of corn is destined to grow a certain way). Whatever you focus on you become. You become a product of what you focus your life on day-by-day. I personally know a lot of people who focus their lives on the sport of football. They know all the players and statistics. They live, eat, and drink football. Whatever you take into yourself you become, it is a divine principle. So, if you are trapped in sin and death it is imparrative that you not focus on that. You must focus your attention on the seed of God, and just comprehend the truth that when you are born again, you are born again with a brand new nature. You are discovering that you are spirit, and that Christ is in you.
Yes, the seed of Christ is on the inside of us and is pre-programmed to harvest everything of the kingdom of God on earth. If you are living by your Adamic consciousness (sin and death), you are not living life like Christ. I am not saying that you must kill your adamic consciousness. But you must simply recognize that you have the seed of Christ within you. Stop condemning yourself, and realize that Jesus paid the penalty and that’s why He died. Not so you can sin and to stay there. For sure not! He gave you the freedom to look away from sin. The Gospel doesn’t tell us to look and focus on our sin, but:
Hebrews 12:1-2
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
FOCUS (“fixing our eyes”) ON JESUS
“When Christ, who is my life, is revealed, then you will be revealed with Him in glory” (Col. 3:4).
