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."
For centuries, the Church has chosen to either accept what the Father has made available to us or to settle for what we thought was available to us. Many believe that the fullness of what God has made ours through Jesus, is more than we could ever imagine was for us here on earth, so we've put off God's Promises as being for when we die and go to Heaven.
When God created Adam and Eve and placed them in the Garden of Eden, He planned for mankind to live there forever. God's Plan, purpose and will for His children has never changed. God never had a Plan B, it has always and still is, Plan A. In Genesis 1:26 (Amplified) God said, "Let us make man in Our Image and Likeness and let them have complete authority over everything that creeps upon the earth." This is God's Plan A and remains His will for His family.
God didn't change His Plan or His will, after Adam's fall in the Garden. Instead, God set about to restore His Original Plan back to His original intent, at His Own cost. We've never gotten hold of this Truth, but we've somehow believed Jesus' Sacrifice was an afterthought. Jesus said that the world is "a field" and the "seed" are the children of God's Kingdom in "The Parable of the Sower." Jesus gives the Parable of "The Pearl of Great Price" in Matthew 13:44-46 and if you read this Parable closely, then you'll see how the rich man saw a pearl of great price, in a field (world). After seeing this pearl, Jesus says that that man sold all he had, in order to purchase this field, because he recognized the pearl that was in it.
The field was the world, the pearl was you and me, the rich man was our Heavenly Father and the price the Father gave to purchase the field, was His Son Jesus. We were the pearl of great price and Jesus was what it cost the Father, to redeem us back unto Himself. We've failed to see how much we really mean to Him and what it cost Him to buy us back. You are His very heartbeat and everything He has done, was to bring us back to His Original Plan, the Plan He had when He made us. Through Jesus, we're redeemed and are back where we belong, in His Presence.
From the beginning, God intended for us to share His Kingdom with Him. We're the only things in God's Kingdom that are created (made) in His Own Likeness and Image. God had all the Heavenly creatures and the universe, but nothing in it was like Him. When God formed and breathed His very Own Self into man, man became in His Image and Likeness, as His very Own children. Through Jesus, we have been made alive again to Him and Him to us. We're once again family and children, of the Most High God.
If God went through what He did, in order to redeem us and bring us back to Him then should we hold back from His Presence and His Kingdom? All the things God planned for us in the beginning, are what He still wants us to have. Some believe this is taking advantage of God's Love, but it's really responding to His Love and allowing Him to give us what He created for us to have. This isn't just for us in Heaven, but is so much more. Heaven was to be a part of what He planned for us on this earth too. He created His Kingdom here for Him and us to enjoy, as His Own children.
Genesis 1:31 tells us that, "Man was the crowning Glory to all that God had made and it wasn't until all things were prepared, that He placed His children into the home He had made for them." We were to live here with our Heavenly Father and bring forth sons and daughters to His family. We were to Bless and love Him and be Blessed and Loved by Him.
Since Adam's transgression, God has been restoring His Pearl of Great Price, back to Himself. He gave all that He had, in order to purchased the field, because of us. Now, the Pearl and the field are both back to the Original Owner, just like the Father intended. Through Jesus, mankind is back where God had intended him to be and because of Jesus' Sacrifice, God's children will never be separated from Him, like Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, before Adam's transgression.
The world has told the Church to, "Reject God's Love and His Promises," but God's will is that we would receive everything that He created for us, in the beginning. Don't we realize that God created everything on this earth, for us? God was already God, before He created the universe and this earth. He didn't need an earth, a tree, or anything else in this physical world. He only needed these things for us. God could have created another angel, but angels weren't made in His Image and Likeness. God's heart was so full of Love, that He wanted someone to share His Love with.
Some believe that God brought about our salvation, out of pity, but that's wrong! It was because of His Love for us, that God gave His Own Life and Blood. It's foolish to think that God, from His Love for us, wouldn't want us to enjoy the Life He gave us. The life we now know in this body, is nothing, compared to the Life He intended for us. We were supposed to have everything this physical world had to offer, combined with all that the Spiritual world had to offer, in this physical body.
Adam's fall reduced us to only the physical world, with it's hardships. This was never God's Plan for us. We allow ourselves to be robbed of God's intent for us even now, after Jesus' Redemption and salvation. We continue waiting for it to come, when it is already here. The only thing yet to come, is having a glorified body that will never die and which will house the eternal spirit God birthed into us again, through Jesus. We were never meant to grow old or be sick or suffer loss or be in a place where God's provision wasn't there. God is our Father and He will always provide for us, if we will only let Him do so and if we don't limit Him.
If earthly fathers provide and protect our own children out of our love for them, then would our Heavenly Father do any less than that? Take off the limits of God's Love and His Grace and allow Him to Love you to the fullness and abundance of His Love. The world has fabricated a lie and caused us to believe that, "If we don't do all the things religion has told us, then we cannot ever enjoy God's fullness." This isn't even close to being Truth.
The only thing holding us back from God's Blessing, is us and our lack of understanding. We look at what the enemy has done to those before us and try identifying with them. They too were only learning and not knowing. Paul didn't go through the things he went through, to show us how to suffer. He went through these things, in order to show us how to live in what the Father had shown him about the new creation family of God. Paul was the only person who at that time, knew the Revelation of the new creation family of God. Satan tried to stop Paul from preaching the Revelation and to stop God's Plan for us. Only the lying devil could construe this Revelation into being a time of suffering, instead of triumph.
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