Proverbs 4:7 (Amplified) says, "The beginning of Wisdom is; get Wisdom, skillful and Godly Wisdom! For skillful and Godly Wisdom is the principal thing. And with all you have gotten, get understanding (discernment, comprehension, and interpretation)."
Jesus is Skillful and Godly Wisdom to us. 1Corinthians 1:30 (Amplified) says, "But it is from Him that you have your Life in Christ Jesus, Whom God made our Wisdom from God, Revealed to us knowledge of the Divine Plan of Salvation previously hidden, manifesting itself as our Righteousness, thus making us upright and putting us in right standing with God, and our Consecration, making us pure and holy, and our Redemption, providing our Ransom from eternal penalty for sin."
Much of God's Plan for us has never been accepted or preached in today's churches, because of traditions. Our lack of Wisdom in Jesus, has caused us to lose and know God's Original Intent for man. We've held onto the Truth that when we're saved, we'll spend eternity with the Lord, but we don't know what it's like to share in His Presence while here on earth. Many believe that the Super-natural things of God "have passed away" and "aren't for us today."
Man has been led by our senses for so long, that we filter the Wisdom of God, through our own ideas. Many believe that it's "over the top," to say we can live in the Original Intent and Plan God had for His family. What is there that God cannot do today, that He has done before? Are healing and deliverance lost to God's ability today?
Today's Church puts off the Super-natural intentions of God's Plan for His family, for being when we die and go to Heaven. Many view those who speak of these things and/or walk in them, with suspicion. The job of today's Church, is to do like Jesus did during His earthly ministry and deliver those who are still oppressed by the devil. In order to do this, we must embrace the Super-natural Presence of God and allow Him to live through us, like He did through Jesus.
Jesus said, "It's not Me, but the Father in Me, that does the work." This is still True for the Church today. It's not us who does the work, but it's the Father in us, Who will do the Super-natural work of setting the captives free. Jesus told His followers in Mark 16:17 (Amplified), "These attesting signs will accompany those who believe."
Believers have believed to the place of being born-again, but we've failed to believe in God's ability to do His work in us, while we're still on this earth. This isn't pride in ourselves, but is trust and faith in the Greater One Who lives within us, like He did in Jesus. We've inherited the very same Holy Spirit and the same Father, Who were present in Jesus. Romans 8:17 (Amplified) says, "And if we are His children, then we are His heirs also; heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, sharing His inheritance with Him; only we must share His suffering if we are to share His Glory."
Through the years, I've found that some of the suffering we share, is walking in the Very Presence of the Father and allowing Him to manifest Himself through us. Jesus wasn't speaking about the suffering He bore on Calvary, but about the suffering of the sense-ruled men, who came up against anything they didn't understand. God's Original Intent for His family, included our walking in His Own Super-natural ability that we inherited from our Heavenly Father. The result of Adam's transgression was that he transferred his ability of the Blessing and Super-natural ability, into the hands of God's enemy, which was used to destroy the family of men. Jesus restored that Super-natural Spiritual ability back to us, by His Sacrifice.
We cannot change this world back to what God intends, without having the ability of the Holy Spirit working in us. Paul writes in Ephesians 6:12 (Amplified), "For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood (contending with physical opponents), but against the despotisms, against the powers, against the master spirits who are the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly supernatural sphere."
We've been successful to lead others to salvation and get them born-again, but we've left most of those persons still in the physical realm of captivity by supernatural forces. Sickness, disease, despair, oppression and many of the same things that afflicted us before we were born-again, continue to plague God's family after being born-again. These can only be overcome by the Super-natural ability of the Father, Who does the work and is working through His Own family.
God hasn't lost any of His ability to set the captives free, but we've lost faith in His ability to do it through us. We stumble at this thought in our sense knowledge, but there are no limits in our born-again spirit. Your spirit is infused by the Holy Spirit and knows no fear, no limits and no retreat. The fear comes from the outside, not the inside. 2Timothy 1:7 (Amplified) says, "For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear, but He has given us a spirit of power and of love and of a calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self control."
This self control is something we've used to abstain from what we know is sin, but it's also used to prevent the world to control us by its standards. It's used to allow God to have control in our lives, by our not fearing reprisal from the world. A "well-balanced mind" is a renewed mind, which Paul writes about in Romans 12:2 (Amplified), saying, "Do not be conformed to this world (age), fashioned after and adapted to it's external, superficial customs, but be transformed, changed by the entire renewal of your mind, by its new ideals and attitude so you may prove for yourselves what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God (even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect in His sight for you)."
We must live in this world, but Jesus said in John 17:16 (Amplified), "They are not of the world (worldly) belonging to the world, just as I am not of the world." The world doesn't understand the Super-natural things of the Spirit of God, but we're supposed to understand them and walk in them, like Jesus did. The Presence of God is the only thing that can break the bonds of the enemy over God's people. The principalities that keep mankind captive, can only be displaced and broken by God's Super-natural Presence, through His people. Paul tells us in Ephesians 6:12 (Amplified) that, "We are not fighting men, but spiritual forces of darkness and evil." This can't be removed by any other Source, except God's Presence through His Spirit which now lives in His people. Without the Super-natural, we are just a religion and not a living organism of God on this earth.
If Jesus hadn't healed and delivered the people like He did, then the people would have remained in the same bondage they were in before He came. Jesus was still the Son of God, but the people wouldn't have been delivered. Because He was the Son of God, though, He brought the Love of God into focus in people's lives. He Glorified the Father in the eyes of man and brought fear to the principalities and powers of darkness, Alleluia. People didn't understand this and rejected Jesus. This is the suffering He endured in His earthly ministry.
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