Oh what wonder is before us as we openly receive the truth of our Lord’s Word. It is a step into flowing freely in the Holy Spirit. It is different than the common understanding of “receiving” the Word. Many of us have lived a life receiving the Word. But now the Spirit calls for the mystery of the Word to be uncovered and released within us. “Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:…” Colossians 1:26-27
We all know John 17:20-23, “And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and has loved them as thou has loved me:. . .” The oneness the Lord describes is a complete Spirit oneness with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It was accomplished on that beautiful day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was poured into those believers and as He has been poured into each of us in His Body since that time. 1 Corinthians 6:17 “But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.” In other words, as believers we are not separate from God in any way. His work was a complete one and it continually is ours.
To receive the word that we are one with Him and there is no distance between, calls for us to move into a spiritual placement of giving and receiving in Him in an eye-to-eye relationship. Learning to trust in Him through His work and His faith (Romans 12:3). It stretches us in the Spirit realm to be as He is in this world. (1 John 3:17)
Our life then can receive this word and begin the adjustment of being completely satisfied (the meaning of the word “completed” in many places in the New Testament) in Him and living loved, and empowered.
So the journey from being in need into full sufficiency is the action of working in the reality of the word.
The journey of knowing He hears our prayers, is stepping into the reality of our oneness in Him. He always hears and always answers. In that we can confidently move forward and begin to put our minds and hearts where He needs them to be instead of always needing Him to do a miracle. Our prayers become simply a dialogue with Him (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) as my concerns are already known by Him and now He can begin to show us how He sees not only our world, but share His world as well. That begins the transfer of the Word into reality in us. For we are one in Him and no separation exists.
More coming – stay tuned.
Holy Spirit open our eyes to see and know. Move us from “knowing the word,” into receiving and living the wonder of it All.
All Scripture quoted from KJV.
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