We’ve been made holy by our being joined to Him

We’ve been given every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm 

We’ve been chosen to be his very own from eternity past 

We’re holy in his eyes with unstained innocence 

We’re adopted as his delightful children

His tremendous love is poured out over us

We’ve been given the treasures of redemption by his blood

All forms of wisdom and understanding have been released within us

We were given our destiny and empowered to accomplish it by his power

We’ve been given the Holy Spirit as a promise and the empowerment to complete his plan for us

We’ve been given access to Gods immeasurable power through the faith he gave us

We’ve been given authority to represent Him on earth as His body

We are seated with Him in the heavenly places

He has given each one of us a destiny that we will fulfill 

We are his dwelling place, the very holy of holies. 

“Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met Him. So when the Jews who were with her in the house comforting her, saw how quickly Mary got up and left, they followed her, assuming that she was going to the tomb to weep there. When Mary came [to the place] where Jesus was and saw Him, she fell at His feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.” and said, “Where have you laid him?” They said, “Lord, come and see.” Jesus wept. So the Jews were saying, “See how He loved him [as a close friend]!” But some of them said, “Could not this Man, who opened the blind man’s eyes, have kept this man from dying?” So Jesus, again deeply moved within [to the point of anger], approached the tomb. It was a cave, and a boulder was lying against it [to cover the entrance]. Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to Him, “Lord, by this time there will be an offensive odor, for he has been dead four days! [It is hopeless!]” Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believe [in Me], you will see the glory of God [the expression of His excellence]?” So they took away the stone. And Jesus raised His eyes [toward heaven] and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. I knew that You always hear Me and listen to Me; but I have said this because of the people standing around, so that they may believe that You have sent Me [and that You have made Me Your representative].” When He had said this, He shouted with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” Out came the man who had been dead, his hands and feet tightly wrapped in burial cloths (linen strips), and with a [burial] cloth wrapped around his face. Jesus said to them, “Unwrap him and release him.””

John 11:30-32, 34-44 AMP

https://bible.com/bible/1588/jhn.11.32-37.AMP

I’ve heard it said that Jesus is perfect theology, in other words, He is the best representation of Papa God to us.  At the same time He modeled how to walk as a man fully alive and empowered with the Holy Spirit.   The Messiah was indeed fully God and fully man in one complete package.  We as believers are as He was in this world, that same one man, empowered by God.

This passage shows such a great example of how we are to live in this world.  We are to be filled to the brim with Holy Spirit, actually, you can’t be truly filled to less than full right? We are moved by the human tragedy we see but also infuriated by the works of the enemy behind it.  The Spirit dwelling in us generates righteous indignation when we see the results of sin.   

We are empowered to take a stand on the firm foundation of Jesus’ authority.  He delegated that authority to us to command them to be healed, delivered and yes even raised from the dead the same as our Messiah showed us.  

“God’s justice? You high and mighty politicians know nothing about it! Which one of you has walked in justice toward others? Which one of you has treated everyone right and fair? Not one! You only give “justice” in exchange for a bribe. For the right price you let others get away with murder. Wicked wanderers even from the womb—that’s who you are! You lie with your words, and your teaching is poison. Like cobras closing their ears to the most expert of the charmers, you strike out against all who are near. O God, break their fangs; shatter the teeth of these ravenous lions! Let them disappear like water falling on thirsty ground. Let all their weapons be useless. Let them be like snails dissolving into the slime. Let them be cut off, never seeing the light of day! God will sweep them away so fast that they’ll never know what hit them. The godly will celebrate in the triumph of good over evil, and the lovers of God will trample the wickedness of the wicked under their feet! Then everyone will say, “There is a God who judges the judges” and “There is a great reward in loving God!””

Psalms 58:1-11 TPT

https://bible.com/bible/1849/psa.58.11.TPT

Systems of religion are the most devious traps of this worldly realm.  Set forth by our misunderstanding of the original design.  We were placed here to walk in perfect fellowship with Papa.  Unrestricted access to and unfettered conversation with the Creator of every thing.  We were designed to be His children and fashioned after His kind.  No other beings were formed in His image and likeness to exercise His dominion over the creation.  

Religion came in when we fell from grace, when we believed the lie that we were not all Papa made us to be.  In accepting the premise that we were not like him because of the serpent’s lies we stepped out of intimate communion and into the system of religion.The trap of endless striving and ceaseless chasing after becoming clean once again had us in its grip.  

We were so stuck in this paradigm that it took Papa sending His only Son here to destroy the whole stinking system.  To reconcile us back to Himself by abolishing religious duties and obligations on the cross.  It’s wasn’t so much that He had to fulfill the requirements of the system as it was required that He remove the perceived power of the system from its throne.   

It was a system of our own making that sought blood and death to right all wrongs.  It was not a system of justice but a perpetual engine of suffering and shame which had to be destroyed.   That was accomplished on the cross with words “It is finished” and sealed forever when the stone rolled away to reveal the empty tomb.  Religion was shown to be the fraudulent path to heaven that it always was.  There is no path of good works and asceticism which will make us right with some supposed angry deity.   Papa God, YHVH, who is the very definition of love has sought us out and drawn us to Himself in the person of Yeshua who sealed the deal and shut the system down forever.

You are the very source of my life

I am held together by the force of your will

My very atoms consist of your life force

It is not really a hard thing to understand that I must eat your flesh and drink your blood

For man is made of flesh and the life is in the blood

You came here as a man, filled to the max with the life of heaven

Feasting on you, your humanity and divinity, is where I see you face to face

Reflected in that mirror of your glory is the perfect image of you and me

We are one in the merging of your grace, mercy and faith.

Coming into covenant with you sealed our oneness

It finalized my inclusion into your body supplying me with your life 

Indeed I feed on you daily, drinking in your Spirit and taking in your Word.

As I was watching the water transform to coffee as it flowed through the grounds this morning I was struck how the pure water of the Holy Spirit seeps through us as the called out ones to display His love. 

How we are each cultivated by the rich soil and gentle rains of His love. Brought to the perfect ripeness by his sunshine then lovingly harvested.  We are subjected to the dry times and the roasting flames to purify and bring out the exact flavor Papa intends for each one of us.  Then comes the grinder of life’s circumstances, breaking down our hardness and opening us up to the flow of His grace.  It is only when we are fully prepared that we are ready for the boiling presence of Holy Spirit to bring out all our hidden aspects and release the aroma of our praise to Yahweh.   The Holy Spirit is colored by each one of us in a singularly unique way, no two identical.  His expression here on earth is as varied and bountiful as each one of us his representatives here. 

So many factors go into the preparation of the coffee before the water flows through that each cup, though appearing the same is a one of a kind creation. Together displaying the beauty of the symphonic dance of His body, the full expression of Yeshua on earth. 

Like the gentle flow of waves on a sleepy seashore 

Slowly caressing the sand bringing fresh life with each repetition 

So is the light in the breath we receive from papa

Each breath proclaiming His wonderful name

Yah weh

In and out with the very sounds it makes on our lips 

He is light for there is no darkness in Him

The sustaining energy of the universe is in this light

Like the song which sang all into existence it vibrates with His very life

From the tiniest particle to the whole cosmos we live and move and have our being in Him

The depths and heights of His glory are yet to be discovered 

And He made us to live with Him forever

So we have plenty of time to discover how deep and wide

How great and glorious, how stupendously beautiful 

Is  His love for us 

The eklessia is made up of believers, redeemed by the grace of Papa as revealed through Yeshua His Son.  We were the broken shards of humanity trapped in our sin and degradation, separated from intimacy with Papa God.  Before the light of the revelation of the love of God was displayed for us to see on the cross we had no hope.  But God, changed it all in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye when He raised Jesus from the dead and poured out His Holy Spirit on us, the called out ones, his representatives on the earth. 

He took those broken shards of glass, each one a unique shape an color and displayed His glory throughout the earth.  Individuals collectively showing forth the light of His salvation.  In a harmonious symphony of praise we blend together in perfect unity displaying His glory.  Each one contributing their own glory given them at creation to complete the mosaic of His beauty and splendor here now. 

You are integral to the whole of creation, His vision includes us all in the mighty display of His kingdom, don’t leave a hole by not joining in the family of His believers. 

Ephesians 3:10  Every invisible authority and government in the arena of the heavenlies is now confronted with the display of the wisdom of God. The church acts like a prism that disperses the varied magnitude of God in human form

You are my light and salvation

My expressed glory in the earth

My hands and feet to spread my love to all

Sent forth to display my goodness

The gift of grace and mercy to all you meet

You have come to give life and that more abundantly 

There is none like you, each individual beautifully crafted

Set apart for my glory designed to show forth my love

Your victory over the enemy is sealed 

Completely finished in the heavens 

Just needing your enforcement on earth

You show me to the world in all you do

We are His revelation in this realm.   It was the revelation of the Father that was Jesus main ministry while He was walking in human form 2000 years ago.  One of my favorite preachers has said that Jesus is perfect theology, He is the perfect representation of the Father.  He told his disciples that if they had seen Him they had seen Papa himself.  

What we really need is to grab ahold of the revelation of who we are in Jesus.  He commissioned us as his representatives, yes, ambassadors on this planet and endowed us with the Holy Spirit so that we could exercise the authority He gave us.

It is the revelation of who we are, what authority we have, how we are to enforce His victory over the forces of darkness that is our main goal to comprehend .  If we can grasp the mind blowing fact that we are the very instruments of His will and plan, that we have been given ALL authority, in His name, over every principality, power, and kingdom then we will begin to see heaven on earth.  Our promise of bringing the manifestation of the heavenly realm to earth will become a visible reality. 

The sticking point is that we just don’t believe we have that authority.  We look around at the chaos of this world, the apparent control that evil has, sickness, pain, suffering, destruction and find it hard not to believe our eyes.  But we must hold fast to the revelation Jesus gave us that we are indeed more than conquerors in this life simply because He has already dethroned all the “powers” which exalted themselves when they stole the kingdom from us at the fall.

His revelation is alive in us by the power of the Holy Ghost who confirms that victory in signs wonders and miracles.  It is our job to stand in the restored dominion which we had in the beginning and see the deliverance of our God.

“He stripped all the spiritual tyrants in the universe of their sham authority at the Cross and marched them naked through the streets.”

Colossians 2:15 MSG