God is rich in mercy. In Christ, God has demonstrated His desire to release us from death and from the condition of the world. God has raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
He has declared His intention to have a people establish His Kingdom on earth. He intends to reveal the exceeding riches of His grace and His kindness toward us. He is a manifest God.
God's kindness, mercy and grace declare that the revelation of His nature, His character and existence will be imparted to us through relationship. God has determined that the secret of creation -the secret of existence is going to be made plain to us by casting all that He is - all that He intends to do in the framework of a relationship.
God has created humans beings for relationship. The quality of human life is relationship. Human beings are formed to find their existence in relationship because God has resolved to reveal the mystery of existence and creation through relationship.
We learn as we walk out our salvation, God has established in human beings the need and desire for relationship. Because it is a relationship God has chosen to be known to us as having personality. He is a person because existence it is about relationships that have identity - it is the relationship between identifiable existences.
The mystery of creation is established in His Son. His Son is the only begotten - establishing Sonship as the ultimate form of manifest expression.
Everything related to creation - everything related to salvation - everything related to transformation everything pertaining to bringing forth - everything related to gathering in is affected through relationship. That's powerful.
Transformation is framed as a relationship. "That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that you also may be in a divine relationship with us: and truly we declare that we have an intimate relationship with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ." 1John 1:3
Because we have been joined to Jesus Christ we have access to the heart and mind of God as it pertains to His creation.
Through Jesus Christ we have entrance to all that God has brought forth as recorded in His Word. It is a finished work. Since we have access to the Will and Purpose of God - the beginning to the end the first and the last we never have to be overcome by our old nature.
The entirety of that which God has done, all that has been revealed in His Word can become for us present truth. As present truth it operates within us as faith.
1John 5:4 "For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith."
Sonship and the Kingdom are the points of focus for us because they speak of the intimate relationship that God has promised for His people on earth. It is essential that we keep the vision before us.
The vision we have pertains to speaking with God face to face and it concerns seeing the unseen. It is about being transformed by the image of the Lord. It involves an absolute identity with Jesus Christ but it is also about indwelling - so it pertains to relationship. We are prepared as a dwelling place for God on Earth.
You must fully believe that the kingdom of God is within you. We have the Lord's consent to speak of His presence and work within us as our acquired nature. We are His workmanship prepared unto good works.
We have the authority to manifest His existence as our own - we have permission to be transformed and to maintain the hope of that transformation. We are permitted to declare that: "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not 1, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." Galatians 2:20
An entrance has been ministered for those that believe. Our life is established in Christ in the invisible realm and we must continue to seek to fully manifest it.
God must be seen. He appears because it is the nature of the relationship that He has ordained.
He manifests the hidden relationship of the Godhead and we enjoy an inclusive experience. We have received the life of Christ so that we can put on Christ.
Paul was able to see his own transformation and prophesy concerning its nature. We are called to see and grasp the nature of our own transformation. We must continually challenge ourselves. We have got to arrive at the point when we know that this transformation is really possible that it can be accomplished. Paul saw it - so he was strengthened to work at it.
Faith is the absolute knowledge that you can do it because God is working with you. When He dwells in you, Christ in you is the hope of glory. We are changed into the same image, the same nature and we are able to manifest the reality of Sonship in Christ.
The key to the invisible is within us and the Lord has declared and promised that the Holy Spirit will show us all things. Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.
The world is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God.
*For more information on this topic simply E-mail Michael Brod at: michaelbrod@hotmail.com
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A DIVINE RELATIONSHIP TRANSFORMS US: BY MICHAEL BROD