2Corinthians 5:17-18 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed. Behold, the fresh and new has come. But, all things are from God, Who through Jesus Christ reconciled us to Himself (received us into favor, brought us into harmony with Himself) and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation (that by word and deed we might aim to bring others into harmony with Him)."
Jesus prayed in John 17:22-24 (Amplified), "I have given to them the glory and honor that You have given Me, that they may be one (even) as We are One; I in them and You in Me, in order that they become one and perfectly united, that the world may know and (definitely) recognize that You sent Me and that You have loved them (even) as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also whom You have entrusted to Me (as Your gift to Me) may be with Me where I am; so that they may see My glory, which You have given Me (Your Love Gift to Me) for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
In Mark 11:24 (KJV) Jesus said, "Therefore I am telling you, Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them."
Do you believe that, Jesus believed He could have the things He desired? If you do, then John 17:24 has already come to pass in our lives. The only thing keeping them from us, is either we don't believe it or we don't desire it. Jesus was praying for His Body (the Church) to walk, talk, act, and perform the way He did in this world. It wasn't the Truth of His being the Messiah that set Him apart from others (most of the people He ministered to, didn't know He was), but it was His revealing the Super-natural power of God, in their midst. These people only knew about God through the Law and the priesthood and only heard the stories about the Super-natural events that occurred in the lives of the prophets of old. Jesus brought the reality of God, back into their thinking and their hearts, by revealing God in the present time.
We've do the same things in our lives, by only remembering who we used to be, instead of who God made us to be. We reminisce about "the old time" preachers, like they were the ones who brought about the healings and miracles and not God. They believed the same about Moses and Elijah, that we do about Oral Roberts and Smith Wigglesworth. It wasn't these men who were great, but the Father Himself moving through them. Jesus prayed that we (the Church) should be like Him and the Father and that we would walk in the glory and honor the Father had given Him. He said in John 17:18 (Amplified), "Just as You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world."
This includes the Super-natural ability and power of the Father and Jesus, by the Holy Spirit Who now lives in us. We've been so afraid that we'd act out of order before God, that we refused to allow Him to do the things Jesus sent us to do, in our lives. The world has seen enough of religion, what they need to see is Christ in us, "our hope of glory."
Jesus told His Father in John 17:22 (Amplified), "I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one (even) as We are One." This is the Same Jesus, Who is our "hope of glory." The glory of God is what the world needs to see today, in order to reveal the Truth of the Father to them. There are many gods being preached, by different religions throughout the world today. All of them are dead and only the imagination of men and rituals. Our God is not only ALIVE, but He is actually LIVING IN US. This is why Jesus is called Emanuel, God with us.
You are now the living Ark of the Covenant, because God actually resides in you and is waiting to reveal the manifestations of His power and glory to the world. The "glory of the latter house (temple) will be greater than the former house." The old temple was adorned with gold, silver and precious jewels. You, the latter house, are adorned with the very glory and Presence of Almighty God Himself.
Many question what "God's will for today" is. The Word of God is still His will for today. If God didn't want the people healed, then Jesus wouldn't command us to "Lay hands on the sick, and they will recover." This must be the will of the Father. We're the problem, not Him.
If we're to "be like Him," then we must do like Jesus did and not allow the thought of "self," enter into our thinking. Jesus said that "It is not Me, but the Father in Me, that does the works." We keep putting ourselves into the equation or keep waiting for someone else to do it for us. Are we so afraid that the Word is untrue? Or, are we simply doing the same things, other religions are doing?
The other religions preach about "someday gods" and we've allowed the world to bring us to that same level where we will "see our God in Heaven someday." Our God wants the world to see Him now, not "some day." Matthew 7:7-8 (Amplified) says, "Keep on asking and it will be given you, keep on seeking and you will find, keep on knocking (reverently) and (the door) will be opened. For everyone that keeps on asking, receives, and he who keeps on seeking finds, and to him who keeps knocking, (the door) will be opened."
Since Jesus is "The Door," and we've been waiting for it to open, have we stopped asking, knocking and seeking? He promises that through our diligence, we will receive the very things He desires we have and the Father will be revealed to the world. The Father desires to be revealed to the world, through the Body of His Anointed One, the Church, us.
We have failed to show more proof of our God to the world, than all the pagan gods. We tell people to live right and then they will go to Heaven someday. God desires that "Thy will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven." I don't believe that the things we're witnessing around the earth, are how things are in Heaven. I hear Christians saying, "It must be God's will for this person to be sick." There are no sick people in Heaven, so how can this be God's will?
It's not written in the Gospels, that Jesus said "It's the Father's will" when He healed someone, but every time He came upon someone who was sick, Jesus healed them. Hebrews 1:3 (Amplified) tells us, "He (Jesus) is the Sole Expression of the Glory of God (the Light Being) (the Sole out-raying or radiance of the Divine), and He is the perfect Imprint and Very Image of (God's) nature, upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His mighty Word of power.. When He had by offering Himself, accomplished our cleansing of guilt and sins and riddance of guilt, He sat down at the right hand of the Divine Majesty on High."
Remember Jesus' prayer in John 17:24 (Amplified), "Father, I desire that they also Whom You have entrusted to Me (as Your Gift to Me) may be with Me where I Am, So that they may see My Glory which You have given Me (Your Love Gift to Me) For You loved Me before the foundation of the world." The answer to this prayer was given in revelation to Paul, in Ephesians 2:6 -7(Amplified) which says, "And He raised us up together (giving us joint seating with Him) in the Heavenly sphere (by virtue of us being in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One) He did this that He might clearly demonstrate through the ages to come (this is our time) the immeasurable (limitless, surpassing) riches of His free grace (His unmerited favor) in (His) kindness and goodness of heart toward us in Christ Jesus."
Paul goes on in Ephesians 3:10 (Amplified) saying, "(The purpose is) that through the Church the complicated, many-sided wisdom of God in all its infinite variety and innumerable aspects might now be made known to the angelic rulers and authorities (principalities and powers) in the Heavenly sphere." We, the Church, are to reveal the glory and honor and power of God, to satan and all who control the people, and set those captives free. This is what Jesus prayed and this is what the Father has done. Now, it's our turn to return God's Super-natural ability and continue Jesus' ministry.
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