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Being one with God
In this chapter: 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.