John 1:16-17 (Amplified) says, "For out of His fullness (abundance), we have all received, all had a share and were all supplied with one Grace after another and Spiritual Blessing upon Spiritual Blessing and even favor upon favor and Gift heaped upon Gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth came through Jesus Christ."
Through the new creation birth, we've become sons and daughters of God. We were molded from the Word and Pattern of Jesus Himself. We are not the Messiah, but we're made in His Likeness by the Same Seed that He came through, the Word of God. 1Peter 1:23 (Amplified) tells us, "You have been regenerated (born again) not from a mortal origin (seed, sperm), but from One that is immortal by the Ever Living and Lasting Word of God."
We've been born-again and are designed to simultaneously function in two realms, like Jesus did in His earthly ministry. Jesus functioned as a Man in a flesh and blood Body, but He simultaneously functioned as a Spirit, born from Above. His natural body got hungry, tired, and required rest and food, but His Spiritual body functioned in and through His Spirit, by the Holy Spirit. Jesus walked as a Man, but functioned as a Spirit at the same time. He didn't need to wait to die, in order to flow by the Spirit, but He allowed the Spirit to flow through His Own Body. Jesus walked naturally Super-natural.
The first Adam walked with the Father in the same way, before falling from his placed of standing and Life in God. His spirit lost all connection with God, Who is Life, as a result of his transgression in the Garden of Eden. Adam's spirit took upon itself the lost innocence and became spiritual dead, like his new father, satan. From that time on, Adam could only function in one realm, which was the realm of the flesh or senses. His ability to discern from God and His Spirit, had been deadened by his disconnect with God.
Before we were born-again, we walked like the first Adam, in a a state of spiritual death and disconnect with the Father. When we were born-again, the Holy Spirit of God Himself came into our dead spirit and restored Life into it. God's Life and His Spirit, through and in our new spirit, brought us back into the realm of the Spirit again. We now simultaneously function in two realm, like Jesus did in His earthly walk. We now walk in the dominion that the first and the Last Adam Jesus walked in.
As a Man, Jesus still had the same things occurring around Him, that every one of us has to deal with. Jesus didn't have to settle for circumstances only by His flesh, but could by His Spirit contain and control those things around Him. Jesus had friends, family, relatives and physical things to deal with, but He also had a Father in Heaven Who had the ability to go beyond His flesh.
Even as a Man, Jesus had the ability to delegate this authority to other men by the Spirit from within. After His resurrection, Jesus couldn't just delegate, but He could now impart this ability and authority into our new creation spirit in His Own Image. We can see how the early Church, including Ananias and other deacons, functioned in both of these realms in Acts 9:10-11 (Amplified) which says, "Now there was in Damascus a disciple named Ananias, the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias, and he answered, Here am I Lord. And the Lord said to him, Get up and go to the street called Straight and ask at the house of Judas for a man of Tarsus named Saul, for behold he is praying there."
I never really heard about Ananias before this scriptures. He was a man who didn't only know the Lord, but he walked in and was led by the Holy Spirit. The only thing the early Church only had to go on, was the Name of Jesus. Paul hadn't begun his ministry and he had not written the many scriptures that are available to us today. The men and women of the early Church turned the world upside-down, with the Super-natural.
Today, we have all the Revelation at our disposal and they're already combined into one book, but we have failed to do as much as a mere handful of believers from the early Church. Satan has been convincing the Church that "All these things have passed away" and "These things were only for the early Church," for over two-thousand years. So, even though there are two billion Christians in the world today, we are less effective in many ways, than the early Church was.
Can you image what would happen to the world, if all two billion Christians were walking like the early Church did? The signs and wonders of the Holy Spirit could convict even the hardest of hearts. Walking naturally Super-natural doesn't mean we're superheroes. It simply means that our spirits control our flesh, instead of having the flesh control our spirits. None of the man-made rules, traditions and regulations have produced the miracles of one deacon named Philip did by himself. We need to seek and hear from the Father, like those believers did: in faith and in His Name.
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