The shadows we live under go away when the light of His face is directly upon us. Our positioning—meaning the position of our hearts—matters. If our hearts are in the right posture, the light of His presence, the light of His gaze, will follow us wherever we go. His power is made perfect in our weakness. This means that when we simply bring Him our honest hearts to know and be known by Him, He fills us with His power to overflowing. Our hearts and our honesty are like the fish and loaves from the miracle of the broken and multiplied bread and fish. He does not despise brokenness; when He breaks things, it is to multiply and make them beautiful. Remember unless the seed falls to the ground and dies, it cannot bear fruit. He uses broken things, the simple, to confound the wise. It really is all way more simple than the spirit of religion wants to make it. Relationship with Jesus is knowing and being known by Him; that is what it is all about.
As we open up and let Him and His Holy Spirit come in, that’s exactly what happens: He comes in and makes His home inside of us. Then it is Christ who lives in and through us. So many do not understand what this means. It means “it is no longer I who live, but Christ in me”. His manifest presence is living in and through you. This is His promise when He says, “I will come in, and I will fellowship with you.” This is how every place you put your foot is given over to you in victory. It is Him in you. Because He is the same yesterday, today, and forever we know what He wants to do too. Everywhere Jesus went, He did these things: He made disciples, cast out demons, healed the sick, and preached the gospel to creation. Jesus has been given all authority in heaven and on earth, and if He is living in us—and He is—then He still wants to do what He came to do and died and arose to do in and through us and if it is Him in us then revelation of His authority in us is what we need- we already have it we just do not understand it..
People want to make it more complex than it really is. All we have to do is trust Him and “go” into all the world and do what He told us to do. We need to understand that the reason He was so confident about sending His true disciples out was that He knew, even if we have a hard time grasping it, that it would not be us doing these things, but it would be Him living in and through our surrendered bodies, doing the work. The enemy sees Jesus in us, but the problem is we don’t. So, though He is in us, period, because we don’t understand this we can not do the work of partnering with Holy Spirit to separate our flesh from spirit and we go back and forth between the two and are being rendered ineffective. If we want to walk in the spirit and not the flesh we are going to have to learn the difference and yield to the spirit dying to our flesh.
Brothers and sisters listen to me we must get skilled at separating the spirit from the flesh.
A lot of people have fear of the demonic on this journey and don’t know where to start. But the reality is that if we are filled with His Holy Spirit and belong to Him, if we have really made Him the Lord of our lives, and if our names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, our casting out demons is simply evidence of Him living in us. We have nothing to fear. The problem is we are more aware of the need to be cautious so that those we minister to don’t end up in a worse condition than before we minister to them than we are convinced of the victory we have in Christ. And His ability to bring every good work He starts to a good finish. We need to be convinced of our victory in Christ Jesus of Nazareth, Elohim, bringing our bodies to Him as living and holy sacrifices. Know that a key to all of our freedom and healing and deliverance is…. forgiveness. Forgiveness is a really big deal; if we don’t forgive others, we won’t be forgiven and Jesus’ forgiveness of sin is what reverses the curses on lives and our partnership with Him does too.
Scriptures Referenced:
1 John 1:7
“But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.” This scripture emphasizes the importance of living in truth and righteousness, reflecting the character of Christ.
Matthew 5:14-16
14 “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.
15 Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house.
16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.”
John 15:4-5
4 “Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.”
Romans 12:1
“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.”
Matthew 28:19-20
19 “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Mark 16:17-18
17 “And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
18 they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
Luke 10:20
“Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
Matthew 6:14-15
14 “For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,
15 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”
John 12:24
“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.”