In this post: When we become filled with God, we begin to view the world from the perspective of God-filled beings. We begin to see that challenges of life are small and finite compared to God. And this Almighty God dwells within us. We consider ourselves no more hindered by the restrictions of this life because nothing is impossible for the Almighty God who dwells within us.
One of greatest and supreme truths of Christianity is that, because of the glorious bodily incarnation of God in the Person of Jesus Christ, and by our faith in his life, death, and resurrection, it has now become possible that God himself may dwell within the believer.
That God may dwell within mere human beings is no small matter. The God-filled believer possesses the incredible ability to operate in the supernatural. We can engage in astonishing activities that are not common for normal man.
The God-filled believer lives his or her life with a sense of greatness because the Greater One dwells within us.
We look like humans do. We talk like humans do. We act like humans do and even though we are indeed human, we are God-filled humans. This God-within consciousness may cause us to experience supernatural encounters and engage in paranormal, supernatural activity.
We possess natural bodies, which we have surrendered to God. Yet we do not live according to the fleshly, carnal nature. Though it is possible to still succumb to it in areas of our lives that are not yet fully surrendered to God, we daily and progressively continue to dominate this fleshly, carnal nature by the power of God. If we live in the Spirit, we do not yield to the carnal and sinful desires of the flesh.
We live in a natural world, but we operate in it with a spiritual dominion that causes us to live above the hindrances and restraints of the natural. We eat, drink, and sleep well; but sickness, lack and defeat are not our portion.
We live in dominion over sickness and disease, for God dwells within our physical bodies also. We administer healing to others, for the influence of God flows from us to give them healing and liberty.
We are not subject to emotional illnesses such as depression, anger, anxiety, and fear, because the nature of Christ has become part of our emotions.
Our minds are filled with the mind of Christ and our thought patterns reflect the way God would have thought, had he been in our situations.
We weather financial trials or other challenges in our families and lives, for God in us commands the storms and holds power over life. Christ lives within us and we cannot live by the limitations of unregenerate humanity any longer.
We relate to others as God would have related to them. We bring healing, victory, and hope to others because this is what God in us offers them. In full surrender and complete subjection to our Father, we think like God, feel his emotions, speak, and act like him and so represent the Almighty God in the earth. We possess a supernatural sense of love and compassion for humanity, for God loves them through us. We are fused in union with him, that we may represent him here on earth.
Our greatest joy is the bliss of loving God through worship and praise in the same sweetness of Spirit that Jesus Christ enjoyed with the Father during his earthly abode.
We are ever conscious of his glorious incarnation: That he was the Word made flesh. And we are consumed with that most glorious act of his love when he died on a cross to bring about forgiveness from our sin, reconciliation, and union with God. And we are thrilled by his glorious bodily resurrection. His resurrection stirs our soul, for he conquered death and hell and infused the redeemed with his resurrection life and power.
He ascended to heaven and is seated at the right hand of God, the right hand of power. He poured out his Spirit into the early believers — our ancestors in the Lord, and he pours his Spirit into us in modern times.
We look forward with great anticipation to the literal return of the Son of God, and to our eternal abode with him. We long to be with the One we have not seen, yet we love. But until then we relish that sweet communion that is encountered in our relationship with his Spirit.
God dwells in us by the Spirit of Jesus Christ. We are fused and blended in union with him — Christ in us, the Hope of Glory. Our glorious hope is that we will be completely transformed into the image and nature of Christ in us, and manifest him outwardly.
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