These are some notes from my growing in intimacy with the Lord class: Check em out!
Prophetic word: The Lord is releasing a new understanding of what it means to have a prosperous soul. We are beyond just surviving, barely surviving, or just making it by. Salvation brought redemption and restoration to all things. It brought life and life abundant.The Lord wants to draw you more into His reality, and when you do that, you cannot not prosper. He’s undoing certain beliefs to bring us into the truth. To worship with a prosperous soul- not a broken one. To love with prosperous soul, overflowing with love to give one another- not love starved, searching for any bit of love to find, and to operate in the government of heaven in all areas of our lives. Our internal world prospering, and bringing shift to our the world around us because of the internal wealth that we walk in. Jesus has given us this. It is time to agree with nothing else for ourselves, and to allow the truth of God’s love to settle upon us. There truly is not guilt or shame in Christ. There is nothing that you have done or can do that will disqualify you from walking in the prosperity of who He is. Agreeing with consequences and residue of sin has to go. If you are suffering in some way because of the choices that you have made in the past, it is time to believe and agree with the glorious grace that has been LAVISHED upon you. You have a prosperous soul. You have a beautiful soul, that the Lord takes delight in. Your heart is a garden that the Lord delights in and dwells in. Ask the Lord to reveal the areas where you have not believed that you can have prosperity, bring the truth of Heaven into that area (repentance) and rejoice for the truth of God’s heart and plan for you. If we were to understand the full extent of our destiny, and our created value, and lived just 10% of that we would be amazed, at how valuable and important or lives are to God. And we would be shocked by the reality of abundance we would experience.
2 corinthians 4:18- ESV
18 (A)as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are temporal, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
2 realities:
1. Unseen- eternal reality (God, Heaven, Spirit realm)
2. Seen- temporal reality (Physical world, my life situations, circumstances, “Natural”)
Both coexist at the same time
Draw example on dry erase
We live in a temporal reality but we must do what Paul says and acknowledge the eternal realm. Why? Because the eternal realm is the greater reality! There are three main reasons
1. Jesus lived this way! Lived in the temporal but operated in faith.
Faith is looking through the seen and temporal and seeing the eternal
Jesus saw:
whole hand when we saw one withered
feast, when he saw 5 loaves and 2 fish
life, when he saw Lazarus’ body lying dead
crucifiction, eternal life
Jesus lived on earth, with all the elements of earth but in another Kingdom. He saw what the Father was doing by drawing life from the eternal realm, and not focusing on the temporal
2,) As believers our failures, sins, and shortcomings- all seen realities constantly confront us.
it is vital that we believe our identity lies in eternity- set and secure because of the blood, or else we will habitually draw our identity from below, based on our performance whether good or bad. Our focus is no longer on the great commission, but actually on trying to clean up our act and look good enough for Christ to accept.
Because this is impossible- if we live this way, trying to clean ourselves up, we will walk around feeling
1. inlack, unsatisfied
2. like a failure
3. distant from God
4. exhausted and discouraged
Third, the distinction between the two realms is important because we are created to only find fulfillment in the unseen realm0 God’s realm.
The seen and temporal realm offers many pleasures that God has provided, but none of them ultimately satisfy. That is why Jesus said, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger; and He who believes in me will never thirst.- John 6:35
There isn’t anything below the line, no matter how beautiful, no matter how touching, no matter how true, that equals like. We can only find trye life aove the line, in God, He is life!
God created us with a thirst that only He can quench. St. Augustine said, “Our souls are restless until the find their rest in thee.” Man is perpetually seeking. To whatever degree we don’t know the unseen, and eternal realm, we seek answers in the seen and temporal. We look for eternal answers among temporal things.
The super sad reality of this is that we are programmed for failure if we’re looking for ultimate answers in a non-ultimate realm, a realm that’s partial, fragmented, and incomplete. We end up worshipping the creation rather then the creator. And we do this as believers.
A life of faith, or identity, and our fullfillment in life are all based in the unseen and eternal realm. Our problem is that we can’t see that realm or learn of it through empirical investigation. God’s unseen kingdom is within us, but we can only understand the things of that realm is God reveals them to us.
“A Natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised... But to us God revealed, not the Spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may know the things freely given to us by God.” (1 corinthians 2:14, 10, 12)
This is Holy Spirit, this is the gift given to us by God. This is why Jesus said that is is better for Him to leave because He knew our minds could not perceive what he did for us, and understand the depths of His love without the Holy Spirit!
We are completely dependent on the Holy Spirit to be our teacher. To whatever degree the Holy Spirit has revealed to us unseen and eternal realm we live in it. To whatever degree we don’t understand by revelation the unseen and eternal realm of God’s kingdom, we’re locked into living in the seen and temproal realm. Then I will start thinking things about God’s kingdom that are not true.
God makes known to us eternal, unseen, and spirit realities by REVELATION! This is why we pray for the spirit of wisdom and REVELATION! WE must have REVELATION in our hearts. Well what is this revelation?
In revelation God breaks through our consciousness and reveals eternal truths not discernable in the realm of appearances. And we respond, “Oh I see!” this is the eyes our hearts being enlightened. To see the greater depths of love.
How does this happen? Revelation- understanding of the unseen realm, meets faith on our part, and produces an inner knowing. This happens progressively
1st revelation- Jesus is son of God and Saviour of the world
2nd- Sins are forgiven. Most believers live in this revelation, and do not go beyond this reality
We can choose to live below the line, but we aren’t below the line people. We are of God’s kingdom. But we live in a realm of temporal appearances that differ from what God sees in the eternal. Spiritual growth is a process of replacing temporal appearances with eternal reality and living out of it.
The inner life, the life of the Spirit, you can’t help but live out of it. We’re always living out of what we believe
Romans 6- sins are forgiven, but if we don’t believe it then sin will still have power of us
This is because we’re caught in the trap of trying to become something that we already are: free from sin
We will never know abundant life, until the unseen and eternal realm is home to us un our everyday experience. Until then we will be living according to appearances, and appearances will never lead us deeper in the life of God. God wants to bring us to the point where we say, :I live by what God says about the things in my life, situations, people and myself.” Then we see as He sees, We discern situations are but as they appear to be, but that God’s absolutes are operating in the realm of appearances. We are at rest in the unseen, eternal realm, and we experience His fullness within us.
In our daily lives, the most important thing we can know from the unseen and eternal realm is that we and God are one, or in union. That sounds heretical, but it is exactly what the Bible says, “The one who joins himself to the Lord is one in spirit with Him.”- 1 corinthians 6:17
Why is this so huge?
NO MORE ETERNAL SEPARATION! God up there and and us down here.
God has permanently joined himself to your spirit. He says so! The two operate as one unit. And when we begin to know and live out of that truth, all the promises of the New testament suddenly start becoming daily realities. Joy hope peace, love
We cease striving to get closer to God. We stop asking, “how do I reach him? Give me the programs, give me plans, and ways,: Instead we live out of what is already true.
We live in union
God and you are one.
In the seen and temporal, He operates as you. You rest in Him.
He does it all- Christ in you; hope of Glory. No longer I who live- but Christ who lives in me.
Colossians 2:10- Everyone of us who believed into Christ is complete in Christ
Col 3:12- We are already holy
Hebrews 10:14- We are already perfect
2 Corinthians 5:21- We are His righteousness
There is nothing else to be done. As we see that, and God will make what is already true in the unseen and eternal a seen and temporal experience.
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